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What is Social Skill

Chapter 14
Developing Entrepreneurial Competencies for Start-Ups and Small Business
the ability to understand the feelings, thoughts, and behaviors of persons, including oneself, in interpersonal situations and to act appropriately upon that understanding.
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Which Are the Appropriate Skills Needed for the Entrepreneurial Success of Startups in the Era of Digitalization?
Amina Omrane (Faculté des sciences économiques et de gestion de Sfax, Tunisia & Institut des hautes études commerciales de Carthage, Tunisia)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-2714-6.ch014
Abstract
Consistent with prior research on start-up entrepreneurship in this era of digitalization, this chapter is a theoretical study which aims at an in-depth understanding of the main specifics of start-ups. It mainly focuses on those ones localized in resource-constrained environments, by exploring the most relevant and effective competencies for them. The literature review enables the authors to identify five relevant kinds of skills which are related not only to specific social abilities, but also to other sorts of capabilities such as effectual and ambidextrous logics or resilience. Previous works have underlined that these skills have considerable and significant effects on the startups' entrepreneurial success. Consequently, it is recommanded that startup entrepreneurs develop them and learn how to foster them.
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Does Gadget Usage Hamper the Psychological Aspects of Pre-Schoolers?
Social skill is determined by complex interactions between individual, home and school environments, peer relationships and even a larger sociocultural context to get along with others and form close relationships (Riggio, 1986 AU105: The in-text citation "Riggio, 1986" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. cited in Anme et al., 2013 ; Burt et al., 2008 AU106: The in-text citation "Burt et al., 2008" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ). The present chapter focusing on the definition based on Anme et al. (2013) , which included 1) Cooperation – children’s cooperative and empathetic behaviours, 2) Self-Control – children’s behaviours that emerge in conflict situations, and 3) Assertion – a child’s initiating behaviours.
Published in Chapter: Does Gadget Usage Hamper the Psychological Aspects of Pre-Schoolers?; From: Handbook of Research on Mobile Devices and Smart Gadgets in K-12 Education
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