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The current study uses a sample of community colleges to explore the specific organizational practices that mediate the link between entrepreneurial orientation and performance. The study focuses on a set of practices known as strategic enrollment management and finds that a college’s entrepreneurial orientation predicts its enrollment management orientation and the effectiveness of specific enrollment management practices for recruitment and retention. However, none of the constructs were associated with higher admission, graduation, or retention rates. The implications of these findings for theory, practice, and future research are then discussed.

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Bhavesh Bambhrolia, Ed.D., is the University Registrar at Temple University in the Enrollment Management portfolio. Prior to joining Temple in 2012, he served as a business analyst in the enrollment management division at the Community College of Philadelphia and taught international business at Mercer County Community College. Currently, at Temple, he is focusing on innovation and efficiency of service delivery and operation through data science and emerging technology to support student success and outcome. Bhavesh holds a doctorate in education from Rowan University, an MBA from the University of New Haven, and a BS in biology from the University of New Haven. His academic interests include strategy and planning, decision making, and entrepreneurship.

Steven E. Phelan is M.B.A. Director and Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina. He earned his Ph.D. in computational economics from La Trobe University (Australia) in 1998 and has previously held tenure track positions at the University of Texas at Dallas, the University of Nevada Las Vegas, and Rowan University. His research is broadly focused on the conceptualization, measurement, and enhancement of performance in social systems.

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