Skills and knowledge management in higher education: How service learning can contribute to social entrepreneurial competence development

Why this paper matters

Develops a social-entrepreneurial competence framework from service-learning diaries and interviews.

Evidence reviewed

Design: Mixed qualitative content analysis; 40 master’s students and five instructors
Full-text status: Indexed PDF/full text reviewed

Principal finding

Identifies knowledge, skills, and reflective processes connecting service-learning to social entrepreneurial competence.

EntrSL interpretation

This paper informs the design or evaluation of service-learning and experiential-learning work. Its findings should be interpreted within the reported design and context, not treated as universal or necessarily causal evidence.

Limitations and boundary conditions

Small German sample; framework needs longitudinal and comparative validation.

Scoring rationale

• EntrSL relevance: 5/5. Directness to service-learning, experiential learning, higher education, entrepreneurship, reflection, reciprocity, or institutional practice.
• Evidence quality: 4/5. Based on design transparency, sample or review breadth, analytical fit, and inferential limits.
• Journal standing is separate. OpenAlex two-year mean citedness and h-index are descriptive source metrics and do not increase this paper’s evidence score.

Citation

Jantje Halberstadt; Jana-Michaela Timm; Sascha Kraus; Katherine Gundolf (2019). “Skills and knowledge management in higher education: How service learning can contribute to social entrepreneurial competence development.” Journal of Knowledge Management. https://doi.org/10.1108/JKM-12-2018-0744