Part 5: Student Entrepreneurship in the Digital Era
17 The Dynamics of Alumni-Student Interactions via Digital Community Mechanisms in Entrepreneurship Education
Ragnhild Nordeng Fauchald
Jørgen Veisdal
Lise Aaboen
Karoline Kaspersen
Abstract
This chapter investigates how students and alumni of an entrepreneurship education program can access and share knowledge, resources, and networks via digital tools. Previously, communication between students and alumni in the program was an ad hoc process of social recommendations. A two-sided platform was developed to foster more frequent and better alumni-student interactions. In this study, we investigated the dynamics of alumni-student interactions, with an emphasis on digital community ...
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