Richard Tunstall

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor (Associate) at University of Leeds

Purpose Internal corporate venturing is a vehicle for firms to realize strategic and financial goals through entrepreneurial ventures. Prior research presents a strategic process in which individual managers make rational choices based on their formal roles and top-down corporate objectives. Recent work has challenged this by adopting a relational...

The development of entrepreneurial mindsets and competencies is a key differentiator of entrepreneurship education, yet traditional, individualist, functional approaches to entrepreneurship education do not adequately support this and appropriate tools and techniques remain unclear. This learning innovation is an approach to directly support the de...

Institutions are ubiquitous in most macro-level aspects that influence economic regulations. Attempts made by policymakers in Malaysian entrepreneurship are until today, struggling to fill institutional voids. This qualitative study seeks to understand both macro-micro institutional links in the context of emerging economies. With the prevalence of...

Slides presented for the Emerging Research Paper Track in USASBE 2018 conference at Los Angeles, California.

In Chapter 1, Education or Exploitation? Reflecting on the Entrepreneurial University and the Role of the Entrepreneurship Educator, Richard sets the scene in an outstanding way by showing that entrepreneurship is no longer a marginal issue of providing students with a particular kind of education, but has turned into an issue of managing the unive...

This study examines the perception and experience of indigenous entrepreneurs within the system coordination by the policy maker; and to investigate the relationship between both parties in the context of Malaysia. Through Gioia methodology, it is discovered that the former acknowledges the benefits gained despite raising issues such as insufficien...

Purpose - Educators are increasingly required to develop creativity and entrepreneurial capabilities amongst students, yet within the fields of entrepreneurship and innovation these are presented as separate processes. We explore the theoretical and conceptual similarities and differences between these processes, and relate this to a range of exper...

This chapter considers the common traps that researchers in entrepreneurship fall into when applying philosophical assumptions. It begins by explaining the importance of considering how meta-theories impact on the construction of knowledge and presents four paradigms and associated philosophical assumptions based on Burrell and Morgan's (1979) para...

Crowdfunding has fundamentally impacted the world of entrepreneurial finance by providing a new alternative to equity, debt and bootstrapping which allows entrepreneurs to leverage 'the crowd’ in order to generate financial investment and further ‘value-added’ benefits (Belleflamme et al., 2014; Harrison, 2013; Ordanini et al., 2011) generating £2....

Context: Experience-based learning is recognized as a critical mechanism in preparing individuals for the practice of entrepreneurship (eg. Fayolle and Gailly 2008; Solomon et al. 2002). However, as action-and experience-based entrepreneurship programmes are still a relatively new phenomenon, few studies exist which compare design and pedagogy acro...

Research has argued that in order to learn the practice of entrepreneurship, individuals must engage in entrepreneurial processes in order to gain experiential knowledge, often stated as 'learning by doing'. Practitioners also emphasize that learning to be entrepreneurial is typically experiential. Today, an extensive and steadily growing number of...

Purpose This paper analyses entrepreneurial activity within existing organisations. Research tends to limit entrepreneurial behaviour to owner‐managers, corporate senior and middle managers and frequently presents intrapreneurship as a positive phenomenon. This paper seeks to broaden the focus of studies of intrapreneurship and corporate entreprene...

Purpose This paper aims to explore the role of electronic simulation case studies in enterprise education, their effectiveness, and their relationship to traditional forms of classroom‐based approaches to experiential learning. The paper seeks to build on previous work within the field of enterprise and management education, specifically in relatio...

This principally conceptual paper explores how, in conjunction with its market orientation, a firm's internal and external strategic relationships may be used in implementing corporate venturing to achieve its strategic intent. Conceptually, the paper begins by exploring work on strategic corporate venturing. Building on this analysis, a dichotomy...

A growing body of evidence suggests that relevant, well-designed simulations can make a valuable contribution to students' experiences in training and education and go some way toward meeting the expectations of students who have grown up with immersive, computer-mediated games. Within universities, many barriers exist that may prevent the effectiv...

Heritage is the key to the success of the tourism industry in Wales. Tourism itself is one of the largest and most important industries in the Principality, contributing £2.5 billion in spending from visitors, 7% to GDP and 10% of jobs to the economy. Following a period of substantial growth during the 1980s and 1990s, the industry has seen a perio...