Age, job identification, and entrepreneurial intention

Abstract

Structured Abstract:Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to examine how age and job identification affect entrepreneurial intention. Design/methodology/approach -The researchers draw on a representative sample of the Austrian adult workforce and apply binary logistic regression on entrepreneurial intention. Findings -The findings reveal that as employees age they are less inclined to act entrepreneurially, and that their entrepreneurial intention is lower the more they identify with their job. Whereas gender, education, and previous entrepreneurial experience matter, leadership and having entrepreneurial parents seem to have no impact on the entrepreneurial intention of employees. Research implications -Implications relate to a contingency perspective on entrepreneurial intention where the impact of age is exacerbated by stronger identification with the job. Practical implications -Practical implications include the need to account for different motivational backgrounds when addressing entrepreneurial employees of different ages. Societal implications include the need to adopt an age perspective to foster entrepreneurial intentions within established organizations. Originality/value -While the study corroborates and extends findings from entrepreneurial intention research, it contributes new empirical insights to the age and job-dependent contingency perspective on entrepreneurial intention.

Modeling entrepreneurial decision-making process using concepts from fuzzy set theory

“…Some authors (Hatak, Harms, & Fink, 2015;Audrestch et al, 2002;Evans & Leighton, 1990) showed that unemployed individuals are more likely to take entrepreneurial decision than those having a steady job. In this framework, individuals engaged in full-time work are less convinced by the idea of starting up their own business than unemployed ones, part-time workers or students.…”

Intención emprendedora en estudiantes universitarios: Un estudio bibliométrico

“…Entre los resultados de la bibliometría se encontró que se han propuesto diferentes modificaciones a su estructura, validándose con comunidades específicas, por ejemplo en el caso de la intención emprendedora en personas con amplia experiencia laboral (Miralles, Giones & Riverola, 2015;Hatak, Harms & Fink, 2015), emprendedores sociales (Forster & Grichnik, 2013), diferencias entre intención emprendedora por género en economías en desarrollo (Branchet & křížková, 2015), encontrando que la deseabilidad percibida, las normas sociales, y la viabilidad percibida son predictores significativos sobre la intención de emprender (Saadin & Daskin, 2015). Además, se ha seguido estudiando la necesidad de la formación teórica al momento de crear empresas a partir de la perspectiva de los estudiantes universitario, esto a través de modelos de emprendimiento adaptados de la Teoría del Comportamiento Planeado (Valencia, Cadavid, Rios & Awad, 2012;Tsai, Chang & Peng, 2016).…”

İş Kurma Hakkında Bilgi Sahibi Olmanın ve İş Stresinin Girişimcilik İsteğine Etkileri (The Effects of Knowledge about Establishing a Business and Job Stress on the Willingness To Be an Entrepreneur)

“…Research shows that education level (Hatak, Harms, and Fink, 2015), work experience level (Carr and Sequeira, 2007), and male gender (Hatak, Harms, and Fink, 2015) are positively related to entrepreneurial intentions, and age is negatively related to entrepreneurial intentions (Hatak, Harms, and Fink, 2015). Hence, gender, age, education level, and work experience level were used as control variables.…”