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This study explored personality and motivational traits related to teleworker performance and satisfaction, including sociability, need for achievement and autonomy, diligence and organisation. Situational factors were also compared between teleworkers and non-teleworkers, such as number of children, job autonomy and job complexity. Implications for research and practice are discussed.Tom O'Neill (toneill7@uwo.ca) is completing a PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology at the University of Western Ontario. The ultimate goal of Tom's research programme is to uncover the personality profiles of successful (and unsuccessful) face-to-face and virtual team members, as well as those relevant to teleworking effectiveness. Laura Hambley (laura.hambley@shaw.ca) has a PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Calgary. Laura currently works as a senior consultant with SPB Organizational Psychology. Her research focuses on virtual leadership/ teamwork and telework. She is interested in how virtual leaders can more effectively lead teams through different communication media. Nathan Greidanus (Nathan_Greidanus@umanitoba.ca) is Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba, Canada. His research interests include entrepreneurship, international business strategy and sustainable/economic development. Nathan's professional experience includes working in the investment banking industry, owning and managing two franchises, and running his own business development consulting company. Rhiannon MacDonnell (rmacdonn@ucalgary.ca) is currently completing her PhD in Management at the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary. Rhiannon's recent research endeavours include a large study on Virtual Teams, as well as research seeking to create a personality-based selection measure for teleworkers in collaboration with Laura Hambley and others. Theresa J.B. Kline (Babbitt@ucalgary.ca) is a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Calgary. She has an active research programme in the area of team performance and her other research interests include psychometrics, organisational effectiveness, and work attitudes. She has an active organisational consulting practice with projects ranging from individual and organizational assessment to strategic alignment. New Technology, Work and Employment 24:2

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This study examines the organizational drivers of entrepreneurial entry through the lens of individual‐level ambidexterity. We theorize that employees that both explore and exploit new activities within organizations are more likely to become entrepreneurs outside the organization. Multilevel analysis results from a large sample of Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey data support this hypothesis. This study contributes to the entrepreneurship literature by highlighting the role of individuals' prior ambidexterity experiences in organizations as foundational building blocks of entrepreneurial entry. The study links entrepreneurship and ambidexterity theories with evidence that an individual's ambidexterity and entrepreneurial activities are related.

We draw on quantum physics ideas of "entanglement" and "indeterminism" to introduce and develop "Quantum Sustainable Organizing Theory" (QSOT). Quantum entanglement points to the interconnectedness of matter in ways that defy Newtonian physics and commonsense assumptions that underlay conventional organizing theory. Quantum indeterminism suggests that uncertainty is an inherent feature of reality and not simply a lack of information that impedes rational decision making. Taken together, these quantum ideas challenge the assumptions of conventional organizational theorizing about the boundaries between a firm and its natural and social environment, the importance of self-interested individualism and (sociomaterial) financial measures of performance, the emphasis on competitiveness, and the hallmarks of rational theory and practice. We discuss implications for sustainable organizing in particular and for organization theory more generally.