Identity and entrepreneurship: do school peers shape entrepreneurial intentions?

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Luedemann, Elke

doi:10.1007/s11187-010-9292-5

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“…Offering entrepreneurship courses does not only affect the participants themselves but also other students from the same faculty, presumably resulting from social interactions and observations of ones' peers. This finding is similar to results on such peer-effects in other contexts (Bercovitz & Feldman, 2008;Falck et al, 2012;Nanda & Sørensen, 2010;Stuart & Ding, 2006). This is an important results because it suggest that factors like the localised social capital (Kwon et al, 2013) or the climate for entrepreneurship (Rentsch, 1990) mediate the relationship between organizational measures and individual behaviour.…”

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“…This also applies to the organizational context, where people observe others and think about the consequences of their own behavior. There is growing empirical evidence for the relevance of such peer influences on entrepreneurial behavior or intentions in different types of contexts: academics at universities (Bercovitz & Feldman, 2008;Stuart & Ding, 2006), workplace peers in general (Nanda & Sørensen, 2010), and even school pupils (Falck, Heblich, & Luedemann, 2012).…”

Section: Peer Influences At the Organizational Levelmentioning

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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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“…Peers acquainted at education institutions, such as schools (Falck et al, 2012) and universities (Kacperczyk, 2013;Lerner and Malmendier, 2013), have been found to play a role in fostering entrepreneurship intentions and rates of new venture creation.…”

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How do Entrepreneurial Bosses Influence their Employees’ Future Entrepreneurship Choices?

Rocha

Praag

2017

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We adopt a process-based approach to investigate the influence of entrepreneurial bosses on the two main decisions of employees towards becoming entrepreneurs: exit from the current firm and entry into entrepreneurship. In other words, we study the push and pull mechanisms possibly underlying the influence of entrepreneurial bosses. We do so by employing an identification strategy based on comparisons of same-gender matches of bosses and employees, using rich register data for Denmark. We show that same-gender entrepreneurial bosses have a great impact on employees' future entrepreneurship choices, especially among women. We do not find any evidence that female bosses push female employees out of the workplace, by creating a discriminatory environment that forces them to search for alternative career paths. Instead, our analysis finds consistent support for pull mechanisms, with role modeling being the main explanation for the positive influence of female entrepreneurial bosses on female employees' transition into entrepreneurship. We show that the female boss effect is greater than other social interactions identified in prior research. We conclude that entrepreneurial bosses can be role models and female entrepreneurial bosses may thus act as a lever to reducing gender gaps in entrepreneurship rates.

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“…10, No. 22; entrepreneurial desires (Falck, Heblich, & Luedemann, 2009). In the presence of contextual effects, a student spending time at a peer's home with entrepreneurial parents is going to be more exposed to entrepreneurship as a career option than those who do not.…”

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Model Confirmation through Qualitative Research: Social Support System toward Entrepreneurial Desire

Sahban¹,

Kumar²,

Ramalu³

2014

ASS

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Entrepreneurial world is trying their best level to attract university graduates across the world. Indonesian culture is still very colonial view that the status of employment is more respectable than being an entrepreneur. In addition, people often perceive that a university degree is much better and more important than a person's ability or skill. In fact, the skill is very much needed to support a person's life economically, instead of looking for a university degree first then searching the skill or capability.

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Identity and entrepreneurship: do school peers shape entrepreneurial intentions?

Cited by 226 publications

References 47 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

How do Entrepreneurial Bosses Influence their Employees’ Future Entrepreneurship Choices?

Model Confirmation through Qualitative Research: Social Support System toward Entrepreneurial Desire

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