Not Like My Parents! The Intention to Become a Successor of Latin American Students with Entrepreneur Parents

Abstract

The article presents an extension of the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) to identify, in a Latin American university, the students who are children of entrepreneurial parents and the determinants of their willingness to succeed them. The TPB is used as a basis to analyse the intention to be a successor, and three constructs are added: affective commitment, normative commitment and parental role model. The analysis is carried out using structural equations via the partial least squares (PLS) method, which allows for the study of multiple relationships between construct-type variables. The sample includes 16,185 Latin American university students from the Global University Entrepreneurial Spirit Students’ Survey 2018 database. The results show that, in Latin American students, the determining factors in the intention to be a successor are attitude, the affective and normative commitment and the parental role model. The latter has a negative and significant effect on the intention to be a successor in the family business. One of the practical implications of this study has to do with the development of an affective feeling of the offspring towards the family business. Generating this kind of attachment since childhood could lead to achieving a greater relevance of the parental role model and a stronger interest in the succession of the business.

The Application of Social Learning Theory in Predicting the Antecedents of Social Entrepreneurial Intention

“…In other words, these variables are the building blocks of SCCT (Bellò et al, 2018). Giving due consideration to the principles of SCCT and the findings of earlier research, several variables may be used to predict entrepreneurial intention: self-efficacy (Loan, 2022;Bellò et al, 2018;Mortana et al, 2014;Farrukh et al, 2021), attitudes (Bagheri & Lope Pihie, 2014;Wahid et al, 2021;Mirjana et al, 2018) and role models (Romaní et al, 2022;Abbasianchavari & Moritz, 2021).…”

Identities of the incumbent and the successor in the family business succession: Review and prospects

“…In this case, the antecedents of successor commitment to the family business can be traced back to the perception of self-concept with the family group, the business group, and the leader identity (Björnberg and Nicholson, 2012), forming a research path of "identity perception-organization commitment-succeed intention" (Dawson et al, 2015;Gimenez-Jimenez et al, 2021). Specifically, jun-gens' perception of the surrounding group motivates them to make choices that are beneficial to the group, so that when the jun-gen connects the self-concept with the firm group, the intergroup consistency strengthens his/her desire to join and contribute to the family firm (Schröeder et al, 2011;Schröder and Schmitt-Rodermund, 2013;Bloemen-Bekx et al, 2021;Lu et al, 2021;Romaní et al, 2022). Herein, jun-gens' affective commitment makes the best contribution to successful succession and efficient management of the family business (Sharma and Irving, 2005;Cabrera-Suárez and Martín-Santana, 2012).…”

Influência do suporte parental na intenção empreendedora de estudantes universitários: evidências empíricas no Brasil

“…Por fim, destaca-se que não há estudos nacionais que discutam a transmissão intergeracional do empreendedorismo incluindo as quatros dimensões propostas por Turner et al (2003). No âmbito internacional, Soleimanof et al (2021) utilizaram a dimensão afetiva e Romaní et al (2022) empregaram todos os quatro fatores e os relacionaram com o papel do modelo parental. Ademais, Romaní et al (2022) argumentam que os filhos são mais propensos à entrada na atividade empreendedora quando os pais fornecem recursos e compromisso afetivo.…”

“…No âmbito internacional, Soleimanof et al (2021) utilizaram a dimensão afetiva e Romaní et al (2022) empregaram todos os quatro fatores e os relacionaram com o papel do modelo parental. Ademais, Romaní et al (2022) argumentam que os filhos são mais propensos à entrada na atividade empreendedora quando os pais fornecem recursos e compromisso afetivo. Esses resultados possibilitam supor que as quatro dimensões podem influenciar a intenção empreendedora e, por esse motivo, compõem as hipóteses deste estudo.…”

“…No que tange às dimensões de apoio dos pais relacionadas com a carreira, destaca-se que apenas os fatores Encorajamento Verbal (hipótese 3 -H3) e Assistência Instrumental (hipótese 5 -H5) se mostraram estatisticamente significantes e com efeitos positivos sobre a intenção empreendedora em todas as estimações em que foram incluídas. Tais resultados corroboram Romaní et al (2022) e Soleimanof et al (2021). A hipótese de Apoio Emocional (H4) não se sustenta, pois, tal dimensão não foi estatisticamente significante nessa análise, porém, este resultado não afirma que esses canais não apresentam poder explicativo da transmissão da intenção empreendedora.…”