Entrepreneurial intentions: The influence of organizational and individual factors

Lee, Lena; Wong, Poh Kam; Foo, Maw‐Der; Leung, R. C. K.

doi:10.1016/j.jbusvent.2009.04.003

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“…We also control for age, education, and household income. A negative relationship exists between the perceived lack of entrepreneurial support and entrepreneurial intentions (Shinnar et al 2012), and intentions have been shown to depend on age, education, and income in previous literature (Lee et al 2011). In addition, entrepreneurial perceptions seem to be different across cultures (Shinnar et al 2012), which justifies the inclusion of country dummies.…”

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Sustainable Entrepreneurship: The Role of Perceived Barriers and Risk

2017

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Entrepreneurs who start a business to serve both self-interests and collective interests by addressing unmet social and environmental needs are usually referred to as sustainable entrepreneurs. Compared with regular entrepreneurs, we argue that sustainable entrepreneurs face specific challenges when establishing their businesses owing to the discrepancy between the creation and appropriation of private value and social value. We hypothesize that when starting a business, sustainable entrepreneurs (1) feel more hampered by perceived barriers, such as the institutional environment and (2) have a different risk attitude and perception than regular entrepreneurs. We use two waves of the Flash Eurobarometer survey on entrepreneurship (2009 and 2012), which contains information on start-up motivations, start-up barriers, and risk perceptions of approximately 3000 (prospective) business owners across 33 countries. We find that sustainable entrepreneurs indeed perceive more institutional barriers in terms of a lack of financial, administrative, and informational support at business start-up than regular entrepreneurs. Further, no significant differences between sustainable and regular entrepreneurs are found in terms of their risk attitudes or perceived financial risks. However, sustainable entrepreneurs are more likely to fear personal failure than regular entrepreneurs, which is explained by their varied and complex stakeholder relations. These insights may serve as an important signal for both governments and private capital providers in enhancing the institutional climate.

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Sustainable Entrepreneurship: The Role of Perceived Barriers and Risk

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“…The higher individuals score on these distinctive characteristics, the better will be their P-E fit (Markman and Baron 2003). Building on the P-E fit literature, Lee et al (2011) focus on innovation orientation as a distinctive individual characteristic and find that a misfit between an employee's innovation orientation and an organization's (lack of an) innovative climate leads to higher entrepreneurial intentions via lower satisfaction in the current job. Hence, if organizational conditions are not favorable, i.e., show a relatively poor fit with individuals' needs, skills, and characteristics, it is likely that they become dissatisfied and start exploring alternative career paths.…”

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“…So far, this literature has remained largely silent on the effects of psychiatric symptoms on entrepreneurship. Prior research has taken a psychological perspective and investigated the effects of different personality characteristics on entrepreneurship intentions (Lee et al 2011;Nyock Ilouga et al 2014) as well as the decision to become and stay self-employed (Beugelsdijk and Noorderhaven 2005;Caliendo et al 2014), but has not taken an explicit psychiatric symptom perspective, which we do in our study. Though the exact causes of clinical ADHD are not known, medical studies find consistent evidence that the disorder has a neurobiological origin (Mathis et al 2014) and is genetically determined (Thapar et al 1999;Mathis et al 2014) with genetics contributing to about 60-75 % of cases (Cortese 2012;Faraone et al 2005).…”

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ADHD-like behavior and entrepreneurial intentions

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Little is known about the relation between entrepreneurship and the extent of psychiatric symptoms. Validated psychiatric symptom scores are seldom used for non-clinical reasons. One prevalent symptom that deserves our interest is Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). ADHD is a developmental disorder characterized by inattentiveness and hyperactivity that has been linked to occupational choice and performance. Building on the person-environment fit literature, we hypothesize that individuals who exhibit behavior associated with ADHD are more likely to have entrepreneurial intentions. Using a sample of 10,104 students enrolled in higher education, we can confirm our prediction that students with a higher level of ADHD-like behavior are more likely to have entrepreneurial intentions. Additionally, we show that risk taking propensity is a mediator that partly explains this positive effect. Our study points to the importance of behavioral tendencies associated with developmental disorders, when making entrepreneurship decisions. Our study contributes to the literature on the determinants of entrepreneurship, which so far has largely neglected the effects of psychiatric symptoms on entrepreneurship.Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article

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“…Lo anterior apoya lo expuesto por Lee, Wong, Foo & Leung (2011), quienes enfatizan que la elección de perseguir una carrera empresarial depende mucho del medio ambiente que rodea al estudiante y los valores que emprende. Además, se refuerza con el hecho de haber encontrado que la mitad de los participantes en el estudio reconocen que su familia no los apoyaría económicamente en caso de tener la intención de comenzar una empresa, aunado a que también sienten que su familia los desmotiva cuando ellos hablan sobre la posibilidad de iniciar una idea de negocio.…”

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Analysis of the entrepreneurship iniativeand the entrepreneurial spirit about perception the students of a tecnológico federal

Rodríguez¹,

Herrera²,

García³

2016

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Análisis de la percepción sobre iniciativa empresarial y el espíritu emprendedor en estudiantes de un tecnológico federal RESUMEN Un emprendedor tiene la capacidad de administrar diferentes recursos con el fin de integrar al mercado un producto o servicio. Uno de los lugares por excelencia en donde se aprende a realizar estas tareas es la escuela, por lo que el objetivo del presente trabajo fue estudiar la percepción de los estudiantes de un tecnológico federal respecto a los factores que intervienen en la formación de la iniciativa empresarial y el espíritu emprendedor. Ello con el objetivo de conocer la situación actual del fenómeno y entender su funcionamiento en el marco del modelo educativo del Sistema Nacional de Institutos Tecnológicos y la praxis cotidiana en el aula. Se trata de un estudio transversal y descriptivo. La muestra productora de datos fue de 454 estudiantes de cuatro carreras de ingeniería que se imparten en un tecnológico ubicado en la Ciudad de México. Los resultados señalan que, en lo general, la percepción de los estudiantes encuestados sobre sus capacidades para emprender se encuentra entre regular y muy buenas, ya que solo el 8% de los encuestados considera que están entre malas y muy malas. Las conclusiones reflejan la necesidad de reforzar los planes de estudio, poniendo énfasis en la carrera de Ingeniería en Gestión Empresarial, sin olvidar la transversalización del emprendimiento en todas las demás. Se propone generar programas que incluyan estancias para profesores y alumnos con emprendedores exitosos. ABSTRACTAn entrepreneur has the ability to manage different resources, in order to integrate a product or service in the market. An excellent place where you learn to perform these tasks is school. The aim of this work was to study perception of students from a Tecnológico Federal, regarding factors involved in formation of entrepreneurship, in order to know current situation of phenomenon and understand operation within framework of the National System of Technological Institutes educational model and daily practice in classroom. This is a cross-sectional descriptive study. The production data sample used are 454 students from four engineering courses taught in a Tecnológico Federal located in Mexico City. Results showed that in general, perception of students surveyed about their abilities are considered fair to very good, as only 8% answers believe they are between bad till very bad. Findings reflect need to strengthen programs, with more emphasis on engineering career in business management, not forgetting mainstreaming of entrepreneurship in all others. It is proposed to create programs that include residence for teachers and students with successful entrepreneurs.* Unidad Profesional Interdisciplinaria de Ingeniería y Ciencias Sociales y Administrativas, Sección de Estudios de Posgrado e Investigación, Instituto Politécnico Nacional. Av. Té núm. 950, Iztacalco, Granjas México, Ciudad de México, C.P. 08400. Correos electróncios: rsanchezsalvador@gmail.com; cahernandezh@ipn.mx; ...

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Entrepreneurial intentions: The influence of organizational and individual factors

Cited by 490 publications

References 57 publications

Sustainable Entrepreneurship: The Role of Perceived Barriers and Risk

Sustainable Entrepreneurship: The Role of Perceived Barriers and Risk

ADHD-like behavior and entrepreneurial intentions

Analysis of the entrepreneurship iniativeand the entrepreneurial spirit about perception the students of a tecnológico federal

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