Explaining Nascent Entrepreneurs’ Goal Commitment: An Exploratory Study

Clercq, Dirk De; Menzies, Teresa V.; Diochon, Monica; Gasse, Yvon

doi:10.1080/08276331.2009.10593446

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“…This represents an area of opportunity were a supportive entrepreneurial environment is needed to nurture the new ventures. Drive and energy levels (I) is highly related to entrepreneurial intentions (De Clercq et al, 2009). This trait was the only common element in all countries included in this research.…”

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“…Entrepreneurship is recognized as a planned behavior; it begins when an individual decides to undertake a new venture. The goal setting theory suggests that a person who is highly motivated to achieve a goal is more likely to persist in achieving it (De Clercq, Menzies, Diochon, & Gasse, 2009). New ventures are characterized by uncertainty, outcomes are unknown and the potential setbacks and obstacles will influence the levels of motivation.…”

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“…Entrepreneurship as a career choice is related to normative pressures from the environment. As a result, it influences nascent entrepreneurs' willingness to invest drive and energy levels in setting up their business (De Clercq et al, 2009). Entrepreneurs' willingness to invest time in a start-up is possibly influenced by such entrepreneurs' perceptions about their own capabilities and personal preferences.…”

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Niveles de los atributos empresariales de los estudiantes universitarios en Puerto Rico

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El emprendimiento se caracteriza por un comportamiento planificado por un individuo con una serie de atributos específicos. Estudios han encontrado evidencia de que la educación actúa como un mediador entre los atributos asociados con el comportamiento emprendedor. Esta investigación explora los niveles de atributos y habilidades emprendedoras en estudiantes universitarios en Puerto Rico y los contrasta con otros países. Nuestro análisis sugiere una brecha entre los niveles de atributos emprendedores y los indicadores emprendedores clave. Los atributos dominantes de los participantes de Puerto Rico reflejaron altos niveles de confianza, energía y capacidad de pensamiento, pero baja presencia de conocimiento empresarial, uso de recursos externos, iniciativa y responsabilidad, y atributos de sentido numérico. Nuestro estudio validó investigaciones previas relacionadas con la educación emprendedora, la cual debe brindar a los estudiantes un aprendizaje de experiencia y habilidades técnicas para crear, gestionar, evaluar y sostener nuevas empresas.

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“…An established goal is a driving force that makes people focus, take action, persist and persevere in tackling with increasingly difficult tasks until the desired outcome is achieved (De Clercq, Menzies, Diochon, & Gasse, 2009). Self-efficacy, on the other hand, affects an individual's goal setting (Boyd & Vozikis, 1994), and is proven to be an important factor conducive to the enhancement of goal commitment (Locke & Latham, 2002).…”

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“…Self-efficacy, on the other hand, affects an individual's goal setting (Boyd & Vozikis, 1994), and is proven to be an important factor conducive to the enhancement of goal commitment (Locke & Latham, 2002). Empirical studies have shown that when an individual's self-efficacy is higher, their goal commitment becomes stronger as well (De Clercq et al, 2009;Locke, Frederick, Lee, & Bobko, 1984;Wood & Bandura, 1989;Wu, 2002). In light of that, the following hypothesis is proposed.…”

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Who Needs Entrepreneurial Role Models? Driving Forces of Students’ Cyber-Entrepreneurial Career Intention

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Wang

Lee

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Cyber-entrepreneurship has become an important topic of debate in academia primarily because of an increasingly competitive nature of E-commerce industry and internet. Since cyber-entrepreneurial career-decision encompasses higher degree of personal risks and commitments among those aspiring to become 'cyberentrepreneurs', there is need for in-depth understanding on the driving factors that influencing Cyber-entrepreneurial intentions. By integrating the concepts of social cognitive theory and goal-setting theory, the current research aims to explore the effects of Cyber-entrepreneurial self-efficacy (CESE) and goal commitment (GC) on Cyber-entrepreneurial intentions (CEIs) in the context of undergraduate entrepreneurship education, and inquires whether the presence of entrepreneurial role models (ERMs) has any effect on the CEIs among undergraduates. Structural equation modeling and multi-group analysis were used to analyze the data collected from 279 undergraduate students from several universities in Taiwan-among which 146 were with entrepreneurial role models and 143 were without. The results showed that GC has a partial mediation effect between CESE and CEI only in the cases of students without ERMs. Multi-sample SEM revealed a significant difference between the effects of CESE on CEI in students with and without ERMs. These findings may have important theoretical and practical implications to students undertaking entrepreneurship degrees and those making leap-decisions to enter the cyber-entrepreneurial field.

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The Psychology of Entrepreneurship

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2017

The Wiley Handbook of Entrepreneurship

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Explaining Nascent Entrepreneurs’ Goal Commitment: An Exploratory Study

Cited by 32 publications

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Niveles de los atributos empresariales de los estudiantes universitarios en Puerto Rico

Niveles de los atributos empresariales de los estudiantes universitarios en Puerto Rico

Who Needs Entrepreneurial Role Models? Driving Forces of Students’ Cyber-Entrepreneurial Career Intention

The Psychology of Entrepreneurship

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