TY - JOUR AU - van Egdom, Gys-Walt AU - Konttinen, Kalle AU - Vandepitte,, Sonia AU - Fernández-Parra, María AU - Loock, Rudy AU - Bindels, Joop PY - 2020/07/08 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Empowering Translators through Entrepreneurship in Simulated Translation Bureaus JF - HERMES - Journal of Language and Communication in Business JA - HJLCB VL - 60 IS - 0 SE - Articles DO - 10.7146/hjlcb.v60i0.121312 UR - https://tidsskrift.dk/her/article/view/121312 SP - 81-95 AB - <p>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 pre-test and post-test 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. Because of the anonymity of the data, pre-test and post-test responses could not be paired. As a consequence, the statistical significance of the results could not be confirmed.<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></p> ER -