Entrepreneurial Motivations: What Do We Still Need to Know?

By A. Carsrud, Malin E. Brännback. 2011

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Subfields: Education, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Informal institutions and international entrepreneurship (2017, background): “We start with the assumption that the internal attributes of need for achievement (Carsrud & Brännback, 2011; McClelland, 1961) and utility maximization motives (Douglas & Shepherd, 2002; Hayton et al., 2002; Reynolds et al., 2005) drive entrepreneurial intentions to internationalize.”
Understanding the Dynamics of Nascent Entrepreneurship—Prestart‐Up Experience, Intentions, and Entrepreneurial Success (2015, background): ““Start-up commitment” refers to the entrepreneurs’ willingness to exert effort in the venture creation process to make the venture work (Carsrud and Brännback 2011; Dimov 2010).”
Determinants of Entrepreneurial Intent: A Meta–Analytic Test and Integration of Competing Models (2012, methodology): “Prior research (Carsrud & Brännback, 2011; Carsrud, Brännback, Elfving, & Brandt, 2009) suggests that the extent to which initial entrepreneurial intentions are realized and are transformed into behavior might depend on a more complex process, which includes goal intentions and implementation…”
The theory of planned behavior in entrepreneurship research: what we know and future directions (2015, background): “Of these six, three are conceptual (Boyd and Vozikis 1994; Carsrud and Braennback 2011; Doern 2009).”
Venturing for Others with Heart and Head: How Compassion Encourages Social Entrepreneurship (2012, background): “More recent work has criticized this view as overly narrow (Carsrud & Brännback, 2011; Katz & Gartner, 1988), suggesting that motivations for venture creation may reflect individual values and intrinsic satisfactions (Ageev et al., 1995; Herron & Sapienza, 1992), such as increased job security, a…”
Entrepreneurial motivation and self-employment: evidence from expectancy theory (2017, background): “While Carsrud and Brännback (2011) confirmed the existence of a significant relationship between both variables, other studies differ as to the extent of this relationship.”
The future of research on entrepreneurial intentions (2014, methodology): “With the publication of more and more studies using entrepreneurial intention as a framework, however, new applications, mismatches and specifications emerge (Carsrud & Brännback, 2009; Carsrud & Brännback, 2011; Krueger, 2007, 2009; Krueger & Day, 2010).”
Social cognitive determinants of entrepreneurial career choice in university students (2016, background): “This idea explains why some entrepreneurs might persist in entrepreneurial behavior even when they have never been rewarded externally through a successful venture (Carsrud and Brännback, 2011).”
A configurational analysis of the antecedents of entrepreneurial orientation (2017, background): “…traits associated to entrepreneurship especially focuses on the critical role of some determinants that can be grouped in Caliendo and Kritikos (2012); Carsrud and Br€annback (2011); Shane, Locke and Collins (2003): (1) intrinsic motivation; (2) extrinsic motivation; (3) personality traits.”
Personality trait differences between traditional and social entrepreneurs (2014, background): “Recent studies into the entrepreneurial cognitions, intentions and their conversion into actual entrepreneurial behaviours have included that by Carsrud and Brannback (2011) who concluded that entrepreneurial motivation required further study to understand this step more fully.”
Implementation intentions in the entrepreneurial process: concept, empirical findings, and research agenda (2018, background): “…of execution plans, implementation intentions have to the best of our knowledge not been explored in relation to entrepreneurial intentions and actions, despite scholars calling for such studies (Adam and Fayolle 2015; Carsrud and Brännback 2011; Fayolle 2013; Fayolle and Liñán 2014; Krueger 2009).”
Gender, Risk, and Venture Creation Intentions (2015, background): “2000), although that link may also require further consideration of motivation (Carsrud and Bräanback, 2011).”