Successful entrepreneurship as developmental outcome: A path model from a lifespan perspective of human development
Successful entrepreneurship as developmental outcome: A path model from a lifespan perspective of human development
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作为发展成果的成功创业:人类发展生命周期视角的路径模型
DOI:
10.1027/1016-9040/a000075
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发表时间:
2011
影响因子:
4.6
通讯作者:
Eva Schmitt
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作者:
M. Obschonka;R. Silbereisen;Eva Schmitt
Applying a lifespan approach of human development, this study examined pathways to entrepreneurial success by analyzing retrospective and current data. Along the lines of McClelland’s ideas of early entrepreneurship development and Rauch and Frese’s Giessen-Amsterdam model on venture success, we investigated the roles of founders’ adolescent years (early role models, authoritative parenting, and early entrepreneurial competence), personality traits (Big Five pattern), and entrepreneurial skills and growth goals during venture creation. Findings were derived from structural equation modeling studying two comparable samples of founders (N = 531) and nascent founders (N = 100) from Germany. Across both samples, reports on age-appropriate entrepreneurial competence in adolescence and an entrepreneurial Big Five profile predicted entrepreneurial skills during venture creation, which in turn predicted founders’ setting of ambitious growth goals and entrepreneurial success. Early entrepreneurial competence was r...