Self-regulation in entrepreneurs

Abstract

Psychological processes (e.g., cognition, motivation, emotions) have emerged as key to understanding entrepreneurial actions and success. Currently, we do not know enough about specific entrepreneurial psychological processes and particularly lack knowledge about their cumulative or interactive effects. Self-regulation offers some promise in understanding these issues. However, self-regulation in entrepreneurship has not been fully explored, which limits our understanding. We address this by introducing an integrated model of episodic self-regulation (the A-CEM-A model) to map the reciprocal regulatory effects of action, cognition, emotion, and motivation in entrepreneurship research and isolate a series of propositions stemming from the model. We further explore the resource implications of the A-CEM-A model for entrepreneurs managing several self-regulatory processes simultaneously. The A-CEM-A model offers a novel and unique insight into entrepreneurial action and psychological processes, and presents a roadmap for future researchers interested in adopting an episodic process perspective in entrepreneurship research.

Cognitive Bias, Entrepreneurial Emotion, and Entrepreneurship Intention

“…These findings are in accordance with past research, which suggested that entrepreneurial traits have an important impact on entrepreneurial intention (Shu et al, 2016). This study introduces entrepreneurial emotion into the framework of the relationship between cognition and behavioral intention and expands the research on emotion in the field of entrepreneurship (O'Shea et al, 2017).…”

“…Past studies have demonstrated that positive emotions can be used as additional information to help individuals understand the difficulties optimistically (Huxtable- Thomas et al, 2016;O'Shea et al, 2017). This greatly reduces the risk that enterprise founders perceive in the entrepreneurial process, allowing them to assume that they can control the uncertainties and outcomes of internal and external environments, so that they can make the appropriate entrepreneurial decisions quickly.…”

“…Moreover, the study focuses on the role of the founder's emotional characteristics in the entrepreneurial process, revealing the mediating role of entrepreneurial emotion in cognitive bias and entrepreneurship intention. The founder's emotion in entrepreneurial activities has attracted increasing attention in recent years (O'Shea et al, 2017). Entrepreneurial activities themselves contain a variety of irrational behavior, especially in the development of entrepreneurial decision-making activities and entrepreneurial passion.…”

The Impact of Self-Efficacy Analysis-Based Psychological Theory and Literary Ethics on Chinese American Entrepreneurship Education

“…Especially, in the context of a country with a large environmental differentiation, such differences will be more obvious. The entrepreneurial traits possessed by individuals are closely related to their psychological behaviors (O'Shea et al, 2017). To analyze entrepreneurship education from a psychological perspective, the element of entrepreneurial self-efficacy is an important embodiment of personality psychological traits, both in terms of tasks and fields (Cho et al, 2017).…”

The role of regulatory, affective, and motivational resources in the adverse spillover of sleep in the home domain to employee effectiveness in the work domain

“…Considering that for the most part sleep occurs in the home domain, our research introduces a spillover lens (i.e., experiences being transferred intact between domains; Edwards & Rothbard, 2000) to examine the home-to-work spillover of sleep to employee effectiveness. To fully explain this spillover we draw on the distinction between cognitive-, affective-and motivational processes (Inzlicht & Schmeichel, 2012;Lazarus, 1991;O'Shea et al, 2017) and hence test the mediating role of regulatory resource availability, positive affect, and subjective vitality in the relation between sleep and employee effectiveness.…”