Examining Psychological Mediators in Entrepreneurship: Experimental Designs, Remedies, and Recommendations

Autor:	Dan K. Hsu, J. Robert Mitchell, Xian Cao
Rok vydání:	2023
Předmět:	Economics and Econometrics Business and International Management
Zdroj:	Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. :104225872311528
ISSN:	1540-6520 1042-2587
DOI:	10.1177/10422587231152824
Popis:	Psychological mediators underlie many entrepreneurship phenomena. Unfolding psychological mechanisms enhances our understanding of theoretical relationships in entrepreneurship. This paper first reviews the current state of entrepreneurship studies examining psychological mediators and identifies the hurdles that push researchers away from employing randomized experiments to unfold the causal relationships underlying mediation. To alleviate these hurdles, we then propose parsimonious yet rigorous experimental designs that make experiments testing psychological mediators in entrepreneurship feasible and cost efficient. In addition, when manipulating the mediator is not feasible, we theorize and identify two remedies a single experiment can use to examine the causal chain underlying mediation.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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