Project management and entrepreneurship competences

• Authors: Taavi Tamberg , Arvi Kuura , Reet Soosaar

Abstracts

EN

Competence frameworks are increasingly used in several practice fields and have been an object of research. A typical development trend has been encapsulation into a particular field, not considering the developments in related fields. Similarly, in research, learning from neighbouring disciplines has been rare. Yet, during the past decade, there have been several attempts at linking essentially related disciplines in practice, such as entrepreneurship and project management. This is a reaction to the trends in the labour market – a growing demand for people with diverse competences. In this context, converging different fields via competences deserves more attention. This paper compares the competences required for project managers and entrepreneurs; in addition, it explores the possibilities for mutual enrichment, contributing to further linking of project management and entrepreneurship conceptually. The cross-examination of competences for entrepreneurs (The Entrepreneurship Competence Framework or EntreComp) and for project managers (International Project Management Association's Individual Competence Baseline [IPMA-ICB]) reveals some quite significant, but also weak, correlations. The linguistic approach used has natural limitations, as different terms have been used to convey the same concepts. Thus, a relational linguistic analysis and conceptual analysis have also been applied. The main implication is the recommendation to integrate core project management competences into competence models for entrepreneurs. A natural progression of this work is to build a common competence model for entrepreneurs and project managers.

Keywords

EN

competences; entrepreneurship; linking; project management

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych
• Journal: Central European Economic Journal
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 55

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Taavi Tamberg

• Pärnu College University of Tartu Tartu, Estonia

author

Arvi Kuura

• Pärnu College University of Tartu Tartu, Estonia

author

Reet Soosaar

• Pärnu College University of Tartu Tartu, Estonia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/ceej-2021-0003

Biblioteka Nauki

1356518