Grit as Predictor of Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment in Spain

Arco-Tirado, José L.; Bojica, Ana María; Martín, Francisco D. Fernández; Hoyle, Rick H.

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00389

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“…The other competences identified as critical to the development of entrepreneurial human capital form the grit construct and characterize the so-called grit profile. These competences are considered to be predictors of entrepreneurial behavior (Arco-Tirado et al, 2019), which explains the importance of this group of students. Grit is defined as the maintenance of effort and interest to achieve challenges and long-term objectives (Duckworth et al, 2007), and has a positive relationship with innovation and performance in entrepreneurial environments (Mooradian et al, 2016).…”

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“…Grit is the fuel for entrepreneurship and self-employment (Arco-Tirado et al, 2019), and its two dimensions must therefore be enhanced throughout higher education. Specifically, in relation to young adults, Wolfe and Patel (2016) identify a positive effect of grit in the fostering of self-employment, since the qualities of passion and perseverance contribute to counteract limitations associated with age, such as the difficulty of accessing human, social, and financial resources.…”

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Entrepreneurial Profiles at the University: A Competence Approach

Martínez-Martínez

Ventura

2020

Front. Psychol.

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The Entrepreneurial University plays a central role in entrepreneurial ecosystems and actively influences the development of entrepreneurial human capital, which is a critical asset for many economies. There is thus a requirement for the identification and strengthening of entrepreneurial competences, but no previous studies have included any analysis of these competences in the university context using an approach based on profiles. The present study fills this gap by investigating the existence of different entrepreneurial profiles among students, based on their competences. It also defines key competences that are critical for differentiating between these profiles and improving entrepreneurial competence levels more generally. To meet these objectives, a field research campaign was developed. Data on 1104 students from various degrees and faculties were collected and analyzed using a quantitative methodological approach. The results reveal the existence of four entrepreneurial competence profiles, namely low profile, top profile, social profile, and grit profile. Among as many as 12 possible entrepreneurial competences, the most prominent can explain to a large extent the entrepreneurial profiles of students; these are networking and professional social skills, community engagement, perseverance of effort, and consistency of interest. The results provide evidence of the importance of social capital and grit. In addition to their contribution to the theory in this area and the development of the Entrepreneurial University paradigm, the results are also useful for the design of training strategies aimed at strengthening the levels of competence of students, thereby providing universities with tools to foster the creation of entrepreneurial human capital.

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Entrepreneurial Profiles at the University: A Competence Approach

Martínez-Martínez

Ventura

2020

Front. Psychol.

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“…Broad personality traits specifically comprise of the Big Five, which tend to explain broad or general behaviors across different settings ( Loveland et al, 2005 ). To enhance the contribution of personality to understanding entrepreneurship, there have been calls to shift the focus from broad personality traits to narrow ones in predicting entrepreneurial outcome variables since they are likely to be more proximal to behavior ( Obschonka and Stuetzer, 2017 ; Arco-Tirado et al, 2019 ; Obschonka et al, 2019 ). Narrow traits are less broad in their scope and tend to account for greater variance in work related outcomes ( Loveland et al, 2005 ), and hence could be more important to the development of entrepreneurial mindsets and closer to entrepreneurial behaviors ( Rauch and Frese, 2007a , b ; Schmitt-Rodermund et al, 2017 ).…”

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Positive Psychological Attributes and Entrepreneurial Intention and Action: The Moderating Role of Perceived Family Support

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Recent research illustrates substantial gaps between entrepreneurial intentions and behavior. This is a challenge for entrepreneurship promotion interventions that have primarily focused on stimulating entrepreneurial intentions. However, extant literature suggests that implementation intentions enhance the likelihood of acting congruently to the behavioral intention. Furthermore, theory also suggests the condition effects of situations and the perceived control over them. We therefore hypothesized that implementation intentions mediate the relationship between entrepreneurial intention and action, while perceived family support moderates the movement from implementation intention to entrepreneurial action. Using two-wave survey data from a sample of students at an African university, we measured two psychological attributes (proactive personality and psychological capital) as important precursors of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial intentions present before undertaking an innovations and entrepreneurship course. Implementation intentions regarding entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial actions, and perceived parental support for entrepreneurial activities were also measured 2 weeks after completion of the course. Our results demonstrate support for the proposed moderated double mediation model in which the effects of the two psychological attributes on entrepreneurial actions are explained via entrepreneurial intentions and implementation intentions. We further find moderation effects of perceived family support indicating that implementation intentions more likely predicted entrepreneurial actions in cases of higher family support.

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“…The meaning of grit is also explained by Butz et al [9] as behavior shown by someone in order to be able to achieve long-term goals by overcoming obstacles and challenges. According to Tirado et al [18], grit is also understood as a striving force that describes a strength in the long run to achieve certain goals despite many obstacles. Duckworth and Quinn [8] designed a measurement to evaluate the grit based on 6 items of perseverance of efforts and 6 items of consistency of interest.…”

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“…Singh and Chopra revealed a strong correlation between grit and intention to work [10]. Specifically, Tirado et al proved that grit acts as a predictor for entrepreneurship and self employment [18]. Therefore, the third and fourth hypotheses are constructed as follows:…”

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Measuring Entrepreneurial Intention among University Students through Informal Education and Entrepreneurial Mindset

Suprapto¹,

Harjanti²,

Ginantha³

2020

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference of Business, Accounting and Economics, ICBAE 2020, 5 - 6 August 2020, Purwoker

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This is a preliminary study to look at the undergraduate students of Petra Christian University, whose major are not learning business and economics, whether they are eager to become entrepreneurs after being influenced by their family, peer groups, friends or other influential social factors. In this study, the social factors are considered as creating the informal education. The study also looks at the personal factors, which are reflected in their mindset and grit. The students, whose parents are mostly business owners, have a high intention to become entrepreneurs. As the data were collected from 103 students using questionnaires, the result shows that informal education and mindset have significant influences on entrepreneurial intention. Grit, or perseverance and persistence, strengthens the relationship between informal entrepreneurial education and entrepreneurial intention. However, grit does not play any effect on the relationship between entrepreneurial mindset and entrepreneurial intention.

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Grit as Predictor of Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment in Spain

Cited by 29 publications

References 52 publications

Entrepreneurial Profiles at the University: A Competence Approach

Entrepreneurial Profiles at the University: A Competence Approach

Positive Psychological Attributes and Entrepreneurial Intention and Action: The Moderating Role of Perceived Family Support

Measuring Entrepreneurial Intention among University Students through Informal Education and Entrepreneurial Mindset

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