Nurturing entrepreneurial learning through mentoring

Abstract

This study highlights the factors that maximize the entrepreneur's learning that occurs throughout a mentoring relationship. To achieve this, we conducted a hierarchical regression analysis involving a sample of 314 mentees participating in a business-mentoring program. The findings show that to maximize the learning from this relationship, the entrepreneur must perceive similarity and mutual trust with his or her mentor. The data shows that in exerting psychological and career-related functions, the mentor enables the entrepreneur's learning. © 2016 World Scientific Publishing Company