Contextualizing entrepreneurial leadership in the K-12 school setting—lessons from Austria and Germany
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T1 - Contextualizing entrepreneurial leadership in the K-12 school setting—lessons from Austria and Germany
AU - Frentz, Jürgen
AU - Frenz, Florian
AU - Pashiardis, Petros
AU - Brauckmann-Sajkiewicz, Stefan
N1 - Publisher Copyright: Copyright © 2025 Frentz, Frenz, Pashiardis and Brauckmann-Sajkiewicz.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - Global megatrends such as climate change, demographic shifts, and technological disruption increasingly compel K-12 school leaders to innovate within complex and uncertain environments. Entrepreneurial School Leadership (ESL), encompassing opportunity recognition, initiative, and strategic resource management in a bureaucratic setting, offers a framework for adaptive and future-oriented K-12 leadership. This conceptual paper examines ESL in German-speaking countries, where educational traditions that prioritize humanistic Bildung over market-oriented models, interact with pressures for efficiency and accountability. A document analysis of normative school leadership profiles from Austria and Germany highlights the formal integration of entrepreneurial content knowledge and competencies, including innovation, networking, and strategic planning, while revealing persistent tensions between pedagogical and economic rationalities. The analysis underscores that ESL operates at the intersection of individual dispositions, institutional conditions, and national-cultural contexts. Future research should investigate how ESL is enacted in practice, including its potential for fostering social value, transformative innovation, and sustainable school development, while critically attending to unintended consequences and context-specific constraints.
AB - Global megatrends such as climate change, demographic shifts, and technological disruption increasingly compel K-12 school leaders to innovate within complex and uncertain environments. Entrepreneurial School Leadership (ESL), encompassing opportunity recognition, initiative, and strategic resource management in a bureaucratic setting, offers a framework for adaptive and future-oriented K-12 leadership. This conceptual paper examines ESL in German-speaking countries, where educational traditions that prioritize humanistic Bildung over market-oriented models, interact with pressures for efficiency and accountability. A document analysis of normative school leadership profiles from Austria and Germany highlights the formal integration of entrepreneurial content knowledge and competencies, including innovation, networking, and strategic planning, while revealing persistent tensions between pedagogical and economic rationalities. The analysis underscores that ESL operates at the intersection of individual dispositions, institutional conditions, and national-cultural contexts. Future research should investigate how ESL is enacted in practice, including its potential for fostering social value, transformative innovation, and sustainable school development, while critically attending to unintended consequences and context-specific constraints.
KW - context
KW - educational leadership
KW - entrepreneurial school leadership
KW - entrepreneurship
KW - innovation
KW - K-12
KW - K-12 leadership
KW - Educational science
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U2 - 10.3389/feduc.2025.1671056
DO - 10.3389/feduc.2025.1671056
M3 - Scientific review articles
AN - SCOPUS:105025693733
VL - 10
JO - Frontiers in Education
JF - Frontiers in Education
SN - 2504-284X
M1 - 1671056
ER -