Entrepreneurial intentions: The influence of organizational and individual factors

被引:338
作者
Lee, Lena [1 ]
Wong, Poh Kam [1 ]
Foo, Maw Der [2 ]
Leung, Aegean [3 ]
机构
[1] Natl Univ Singapore, Singapore 117548, Singapore
[2] Univ Colorado, Leeds Business Sch, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[3] Univ Victoria, Fac Business, Victoria, BC V8P 5C2, Canada
关键词
Entrepreneurial intentions; Job satisfaction; Self-efficacy; SELF-EFFICACY; PERSON-ORGANIZATION; FIT; JOB; EMPLOYMENT; MANAGERS; REWARD; MODEL; SCALE;
D O I
10.1016/j.jbusvent.2009.04.003
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
An individual's intent to pursue an entrepreneurial career can result from the work environment and from personal factors. Drawing on the entrepreneurial intentions and the person-environment (P-E) fit literatures, and applying a multilevel perspective, we examine why individuals intend to leave their jobs to start business ventures. Findings, using a sample of 4192 IT professionals in Singapore, suggest that work environments with an unfavorable innovation climate and/or lack of technical excellence incentives influence entrepreneurial intentions, through low job satisfaction. Moderating effects suggest that an individual's innovation orientation strengthens the work-environment to job-satisfaction relationship; self-efficacy strengthens the job-satisfaction to entrepreneurial intentions relationship. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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页码:124 / 136
页数:13
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