Should I stay or should I go? Career choice intentions of students with family business background

Abstract

Personal and motivational patterns of intentional founders have been researched in great depth; however, antecedents to career choices of intentional successors have been conspicuously missing in entrepreneurship research. By drawing on theory of planned behavior, we investigate how intentional founders, successors, and employees differ in terms of locus of control and entrepreneurial self-efficacy as well as independence and innovation motives. We find that transitive likelihood of career intent depends on degree of entrepreneurial self-efficacy and the independence motive. Unexpectedly, we see that high levels of internal locus of control lead to a preference of employment, which challenges traditional entrepreneurship research and suggests that the feasibility of an entrepreneurial career path does not automatically make it desirable. Our findings suggest that students with family business background are pessimistic about being in control in an entrepreneurial career, but optimistic about their efficacy to pursue an entrepreneurial career.

ADHD-like behavior and entrepreneurial intentions

“…Prior research has shown that entrepreneurial intentions depend on age (Birley 2002;Matthews and Moser 1996), gender (Carter et al 2003;Verheul et al 2012), marital status (Amit et al 1995), nationality (Bosma et al 2008), the presence of self-employed parents (Laspita et al 2012;Hoffmann et al 2015), study level (Laspita et al 2012), and study field (Zellweger et al 2011). We therefore control for these factors.…”

Ser seu Próprio Patrão? Aperfeiçoando-se a Educação Superior em Empreendedorismo

“…Vê-se o reconhecimento desse fato, por exemplo, no Global University Entrepreneurial Spirit Student Survey (GUESSS -www.guesssurvey.org), realizado desde 2003 e organizado por pesquisadores da Universidade St. Gallen, Suíça. Ele utiliza na coleta e na análise de dados, para estudantes que são fundadores intencionais e outros, uma classificação crescente da intenção empreendedora (Sieger, Fueglistaller, & Zellweger, 2011), algo que se repete em diferentes publicações feitas a partir do GUESSS (por exemplo: Laspita, Breugst, Heblich, & Patzelt, 2012;Lima et al, no prelo;Zellweger, Sieger, & Halter, 2011).…”

The Effect of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurial Intention of University Students by Adopting Linan Model

“…According to Obschonka, Silbereisen, and SchmittRodermund (2010), it was because the function of time and experience helped to achieve more positive results in the future, and success was the result of the efforts. Ultimately personal attitude persists to the perceived feasibility as the key factor of self-efficacy (Zellweger, Sieger, & Halter, 2011). In previous research, Fayolle and Gailly (2015) found that self-efficacy significantly influenced entrepreneurial behavior and was a key tool in entrepreneurship education to improve students' entrepreneurial intentions.…”

“…The entrepreneurial intention is learned in the most venture creation. By doing that, a person can have a greater perceived behavioral control and the intention to become self-employed than before (Zellweger, Sieger, & Halter, 2011).…”