The Motivation to Become an Entrepreneur

By Gerry Segal, Dan Borgia, Jerry Schoenfeld. 2005

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Entrepreneurial self‐efficacy and business start‐up: developing a multi‐dimensional definition (2010, methodology): “Our research was motivated by the observation that the self-efficacy of entrepreneurs has emerged as an important construct for understanding entrepreneurial success, and a substantial body of evidence supports its influences on start-up and business growth processes (Boyd and Vozikis, 1994; Chen et”
Behaviours and entrepreneurial intention: Empirical findings about secondary students (2011, background): “According to Segal et al. (2005) , this theory has extensive approval in many behavioural science disciplines and has been used empirically in a diversity of sceneries to predict and understand behavioural intentions.”
Personality traits and theory of planned behavior comparison of entrepreneurial intentions between an emerging economy and a developing country (2019, methodology): “A growing number of studies have focused on narrow personality traits (risk-taking propensity (RTP) (Nabi and Liñán, 2013; Segal et al., 2005), LoC (Rotter, 1966) and need for achievement (McClelland, 1965)) and personal abilities (creativity and proactivity (Zampetakis, 2008)), arguing that these…”
Entrepreneurial Motivations: What Do We Still Need to Know? (2011, background): “Even recent commentaries on risk-taking behavior in entrepreneurs (Segal, Bogia, and Schoenfeld 2005; Lumpkin and Erdogan 2004) have not applied this broader perspective (Carsrud et al. 2009).”
The idea is not enough: The role of self-efficacy in mediating the relationship between pull entrepreneurship and founder passion – a research note (2015, background): “To understand how founder passion evolves, a useful stance is to reexamine one of the key variables in the entrepreneurship literature – the influence of underlying motivators that induce entrepreneurs to take the first steps to investigate the potential of a business opportunity (Carsrud and Brännb”
Gender, Risk, and Venture Creation Intentions (2015, background): “Subsequent research, aside from any consideration of gender, has sought to identify a possible association between risk aversion and entrepreneurial choice (Shaver and Scott, 1991; Stewart and Roth, 2001; Segal et al., 2005; Puri and Robinson, 2007).”
Enterprise Ritual: A Theory of Entrepreneurial Emotion and Exchange (2008, unknown): “…it differs from most information processing and decision-making models of entrepreneurial motivation (with which it should also be compatible) in its incorporation of emotions and its detailed specification of interactional dynamics (Segal et al, 2005; Naffziger et al, 1994; Chell, 2001, p.121).”
A systematic literature review on entrepreneurial intentions: citation, thematic analyses, and research agenda (2015, background): “The role of some psychological variables, such as risk-perception (Segal et al. 2005) and career anchors (Lee and Wong 2004), in explaining the EI is analyzed.”
Entrepreneurship barriers and entrepreneurial inclination among Malaysian postgraduate students (2011, unknown): “Aversion to risk – six items (adapted and modified from Koh, 1995; Segal et al., 2005; Wang and Wong, 2004).”