From entrepreneurial intentions to actions: Self-control and action-related doubt, fear, and aversion

By M. van Gelderen, Teemu Kautonen, Matthias Fink. 2015

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This study draws on the Rubicon model of action phases to study the actions or lack of actions that follow the formation of entrepreneurial intentions. Concurrently, it examines the roles of self-control and action-related emotions in explaining the intention–action gap using longitudinal survey data (N=161). The results show that self-control positively moderates the relationship between intention and action, and that it counters the rise of action-related fear, doubt, and aversion. We also find evidence for interaction effects between action aversion, action doubt, and intention strength. Our results signal the importance of studying moderators of the intention–action relationship.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Entrepreneurship and well-being: The role of psychological autonomy, competence, and relatedness (2019, background): “Now, individual entrepreneurs may certainly experience varying degrees of autonomy (Van Gelderen, 2016) or otherwise experience a variety of difficulties as they go through a demanding and uncertain entrepreneurial process (Van Gelderen et al., 2015).”
Entrepreneurial intentions and start-ups: Are women or men more likely to enact their intentions? (2018, background): “…lies in extending the limited literature on the EI-behaviour link (Kautonen et al., 2013, 2015; Kolvereid and Isaksen, 2006; Goethner et al., 2012; Rauch and Hulsink, 2015; Van Gelderen et al., 2015) by examining different time intervals between intention and behaviour in the US context.”
Entrepreneurship, Self-Organization, and Eudaimonic Well-Being: A Dynamic Approach (2021, background): “…a basic entrepreneurial action phase model (Shir, 2015) that incorporates entrepreneurs’ goal- setting (Krueger et al., 2000) and goal- striving (Van Gelderen et al., 2015) processes, and further allows for a systematic examination of how these processes are related to the evolution of…”
Entrepreneurial behaviour: The effects of the fear and anxiety of Covid-19 and business opportunity recognition (2021, background): “Van Gelderen et al. (2015) reported that stronger entrepreneurial intentions resulted in ahigh rate of entrepreneurial actions which individuals engage in. Shinnar et al. (2018) employed four-year longitudinal dataset which also confirmed that there was a strong correlation between business venture…”