Empowering Translators through Entrepreneurship in Simulated Translation Bureaus

G.M.W. van Egdom; Kalle Konttinen; Sonia Vandepitte; Maria Fernandez-Parra; Rudy Loock; Joop Bindels

doi:10.7146/hjlcb.v60i0.121312

Empowering Translators through Entrepreneurship in Simulated Translation Bureaus

G.M.W. van Egdom, Kalle Konttinen, Sonia Vandepitte, Maria Fernandez-Parra, Rudy Loock, Joop Bindels

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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 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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	81-95
Journal	Hermes
Volume	60
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.7146/hjlcb.v60i0.121312
Publication status	Published - 8 Jul 2020

Keywords

entrepreneurship
authentic experiential learning
simulated translation bureau
best practices
translator education
self-efficacy
perceived competence

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