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Empowering Translators through Entrepreneurship in Simulated Translation Bureaus

Gys-Walt Van Egdom, Kalle Konttinen, Sonia Vandepitte,, Maria Fernandez Parra Orcid Logo, Rudy Loock, Joop Bindels

HERMES - Journal of Language and Communication in Business, Volume: 60, Pages: 81 - 95

Swansea University Author: Maria Fernandez Parra Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.7146/hjlcb.v60i0.121312

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This paper reviews entrepreneurial activities that take place within the simulated translation bureaus of member institutions of the INSTB network and establishes a link between entrepreneurism, self-efficacy and perceived competence. Reusing pretest and posttest data of a student survey, a first at...

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Published in: HERMES - Journal of Language and Communication in Business
ISSN: 0904-1699 1903-1785
Published: Aarhus University Library 2020
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description This paper reviews entrepreneurial activities that take place within the simulated translation bureaus of member institutions of the INSTB network and establishes a link between entrepreneurism, self-efficacy and perceived competence. Reusing pretest and posttest data of a student survey, a first attempt is made to design and test a survey instrument for gauging the impact of a simulated translation bureau on perceived entrepreneurial competence and self-efficacy for planning, setting up, and managing a translating organisation in pedagogical translation company simulations. Tentative results suggest a positive effect of participation in translation company simulation modules on students’ entrepreneurial self-efficacy and perceived competence. Due to the anonymity of the research data, the statistical significance of the results could not be confirmed.
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