The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education in Higher Education: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda

Using a teaching model framework, we systematically review empirical evidence on the impact of entrepreneurship education (EE) in higher education on a range of entrepreneurial outcomes, analyzing 159 published articles from 2004 to 2016. The teaching model framework allows us for the first time to start rigorously examining relationships between pedagogical methods and specific outcomes. Reconfirming past reviews and meta-analyses, we find that EE impact research still predominantly focuses on short-term and subjective outcome measures and tends to severely underdescribe the actual pedagogies being tested. Moreover, we use our review to provide an up-to-date and empirically rooted call for less obvious, yet greatly promising, new or underemphasized directions for future research on the impact of university-based entrepreneurship education. This includes, for example, the use of novel impact indicators related to emotion and mind-set, focus on the impact indicators related to the intention-to-behavior transition, and exploring the reasons for some contradictory findings in impact studies including person-, context-, and pedagogical model-specific moderator

Peculiarities of inventory management strategies of Lithuanian manufacturing companies

Inventory management and the related problems in manufacturing companies will always be a topical issue. In light of the fact that the manufacturing process must be continuous, there is an emerging need to build up inventories or to solve the issue of assurance of sufficient inventories by other means. Choosing an appropriate inventory management strategy is important in pursuit of this goal. This article examines peculiarities of inventory management strategies employed by Lithuanian manufacturing companies. The purpose is to investigate, what kind of strategies and for what reasons companies are using. This purpose was achieved during the conducted study based on the application of sophisticated questionnaire. Conducted research revealed that the applicability of JIT and 3PL inventory management strategies in Lithuania is limited