A Study on Influential Factors of Self-leadership on Start-up Intention

Abstract

As an origin and a starting point of business start-up, this start-up intention is believed to be the driving force of economic growth. Being aware of the importance of the start-up intention, the study looked into cause-and-effect relationships of variables focusing on intermediate roles of start-up self-efficacy and intrinsic motivation in self-leadership and start-up intention of business founders. In order to achieve the research goal, the study conducted both a survey targeting a total of 195 business founders registered at a business incubation center and an empirical analysis on the results of the survey.According to the findings from the analysis, the study first learned that the self-leadership would have a positive effect on the start-up self-efficacy and the intrinsic motivation which eventually proved that the self-leadership is a leading variable of the start-up self-efficacy and the intrinsic motivation. Second, both the start-up self-efficacy and the intrinsic motivation were observed to be positively related to the start-up intention. That finding signified that roles of the start-up self-efficacy and the intrinsic motivation are important to increase the start-up intention. Third, intermediate effects of the start-up self-efficacy and the start-up intention were discovered from the self-leadership and the start-up intention, the main topics of the research. Hence, in order to improve the start-up intention, the importance of the start-up self-efficacy and the intrinsic motivation should be recognized and promoted as well and for this goal to be achieved, the business founders should understand the idea that the self-leadership has to come first than anything else in this case. Based on the results of the research, the study offers theoretical and practical implications.

Determinant of Entrepreneurial Intention at High Education

“…The higher the student has leadership skills, the higher his entrepreneurial intentions. This is in accordance with the results of Ponnuswamy's research; Yoo (2014aYoo ( , 2014b and Kang and Ha (2015).…”

“…In the context of strategic leadership towards entrepreneurial intentions (Ponnuswamy) the study of the correlation between leadership and entrepreneurial intentions is quite adequate. Yoo (2014aYoo ( , 2014b and Kang and Ha (2015) are typical researchers who claim that leadership has a significant influence on entrepreneurial intentions. Katz and Kahn (1978) define it as the influence of a person that allows to produce more results than the results obtained from simply carrying out daily orders.…”

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