Dispositional Positive and Negative Affect and Self-Employment Transitions: The Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction
| Autor: | Nadav Shir, Boris Nikolaev, Johan Wiklund |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
Economics and Econometrics
Mediation (statistics) Dispositional affect Entrepreneurship 05 social sciences Affect (psychology) Structural equation modeling 0502 economics and business Job satisfaction 050207 economics Business and International Management Psychology Social psychology ta512 050203 business & management Self-employment |
| Zdroj: | Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. |
| ISSN: | 1042-2587 |
| Popis: | Affect is increasingly studied within entrepreneurship. We develop a partial mediation model in which positive and negative dispositional affect influences entry into entrepreneurship, suggesting that those experiencing greater negative affect experience less job satisfaction and are more likely to enter entrepreneurship. Using a novel methodological approach to capture affective disposition, we test our model on a large panel dataset from Australia, finding support for our hypotheses. These findings provide a much-needed counterbalance to the prevailing focus in entrepreneurship on the positive consequences of positive affect and introduce affect into the study of the fundamental question of why some people but not others become entrepreneurs in the first place. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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