Regional Differences in the Influence of Role Models: Comparing the Entrepreneurial Process of Rural Catalonia

Lafuente, Esteban; Vaillant, Yancy; Criado, Josep Rialp

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“…Still, case studies suggest that universities outside core regions can also develop capabilities to successfully promote spin-offs (Rasmussen & Borch, 2010). Positive role models of entrepreneurial students may have a stronger effect in such non-core regions as there is a lack of entrepreneurial role models outside the university (Lafuente, Vaillant, & Rialp, 2007).…”

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What makes student entrepreneurs? On the relevance (and irrelevance) of the university and the regional context for student start-ups

2016

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Abstract:Student start-ups are a significant part of overall university entrepreneurship. Yet, we know little about the determinants of this type of start-ups and, specifically, the relevance of context effects. Drawing on organizational and regional context literature, we develop and test a model that aims to explain student entrepreneurship in a contextual perspective. Based on unique micro data and using multi-level techniques, we analyse nascent and new entrepreneurial activities of business and economics students at 41 European universities. Our analysis reveals that individual and contextual determinants influence students' propensity to start a business. While peoples' individual characteristics are most important, the organizational and regional contexts also play a role and have a differentiated effect, depending on the source of the venture idea and the stage of its development. Organisational characteristics, like the prevalence of fellow students who have attended entrepreneurship education, influence whether students take action to start a new firm (nascent entrepreneurship) but do not seem to support the actual establishment of a new firm. In contrast, the latter is less dependent on the university context but more strongly influenced by regional characteristics. Overall, our study contributes to our understanding of the emergence of start-ups in the organizational context of universities and has implications for initiatives and programs that aim at encouraging students to become entrepreneurs.

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What makes student entrepreneurs? On the relevance (and irrelevance) of the university and the regional context for student start-ups

2016

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“…Accordingly, observing that peers can make it in entrepreneurship should reduce fearing to fail as an entrepreneur on the side of the observer. Building on these arguments, a number of studies have shown that the presence of entrepreneurial role models is positively related to entrepreneurial intentions (e.g., Krueger et al, 2000;van Auken et al, 2006) and to engaging in entrepreneurship (e.g., Arenius and Minniti, 2005;Davidsson and Honig, 2003;Dunn and Holtz-Eakin, 2000;Lafuente et al, 2007;Wagner and Sternberg, 2004).…”

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Entrepreneurial role models, fear of failure, and institutional approval of entrepreneurship: a tale of two regions

2015

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“…Recent empirical evidence indicates that networks and peer groups (e.g., Djankov, Qian, Roland, & Zhuravskaya, 2006;Nanda & Sorensen, 2010;Stuart and Ding, 2006) as well as regional inheritances and clusters (Reynolds, Storey and Westhead, 1994;Lafuente, Vailliant, and Rialp, 2007) influence entrepreneurship decisions. This literature suggests that role modeling may be driving these effects.…”

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Why Do Entrepreneurial Parents Have Entrepreneurial Children?

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2015

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Regional Differences in the Influence of Role Models: Comparing the Entrepreneurial Process of Rural Catalonia

Cited by 173 publications

References 37 publications

What makes student entrepreneurs? On the relevance (and irrelevance) of the university and the regional context for student start-ups

What makes student entrepreneurs? On the relevance (and irrelevance) of the university and the regional context for student start-ups

Entrepreneurial role models, fear of failure, and institutional approval of entrepreneurship: a tale of two regions

Why Do Entrepreneurial Parents Have Entrepreneurial Children?

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