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Item Wholistic Management Education (WME): Contextualized Applicability of Transformative Learning in Management Education Discourse(UMT, Lahore, 2017) Naveed YazdaniThis thesis is a critical exploration of traditional management education discourse. It advocates imparting transformative business education leading to ‘whole person’ learning of business students. Traditional management education needs transformation because it is in crisis. The prestigious management education journal Academy of Management Learning & Education is leading a wave of scathing criticism on different aspects of business school education for the last decade or so. The most critiqued of these aspects include inability of traditional business school education to prepare students to face real world complexities. This is attributed to management education pedagogy’s over-reliance on science and rationality leading to short term profit focus and its being oblivious to larger issues of society, context, values and history.Item EXPLORING ASYMMETRIC CONFIGURATIONS OF KNOWLEDGE SPILLOVER FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEM IN FITNESS INDUSTRY(UMT, Lahore, 2017) Bilal AhmadKnowledge spillovers are considered an important factor in innovation and entrepreneurial activity in the context of geographic proximity and industrial parameters, leading to the popularity of knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship. However, the literature lacks the comprehension regarding the role of knowledge spillovers in promoting entrepreneurial ecosystem. These concepts have thoroughly been discussed in literature but separately and with little attention to their interrelationship. On one hand, the aforementioned theory focuses more on individual’s entrepreneurial prowess and lacks ecosystem perspective as well as the plausibility for service sector and developing economies, and on the other, all the existing models of entrepreneurial ecosystems have not considered knowledge spillovers a contributing factor. Hence, the purpose of this study is to explore the interrelationship of knowledge spillover and entrepreneurial ecosystem through the lens of fitness industry.