Deciding on an Entrepreneurial Career: A Test of the Pull and Push Hypotheses Using the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics Data 1

By L. Schjoedt, Kelly G. Shaver. 2007

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Differences between Men and Women in Opportunity Evaluation as a Function of Gender Stereotypes and Stereotype Activation (2013, background): “Prior research distinguishes between enterprising individuals who are pulled toward entrepreneurship from those who are pushed into it (Schjoedt & Shaver, 2007).”
Life satisfaction and self-employment: a matching approach (2010, result): “…that the returns to self-employment are lower, 1Our focus on nascent entrepreneurship bears similarities to some previous work (Bradley and Roberts, 2004; Schjoedt and Shaver, 2007; Fuchs-Schundeln, 2009); see also Andersson (2008) who focuses on changes between two cross-sections (1991 and 2000).”
The Role of Entrepreneurial Passion and Creativity in Developing Entrepreneurial Intentions: Insights from American Homebrewers (2017, background): “…which indicates the “behavior” dimension of SCT. Entrepreneurial intention reflects the individual’s interest in starting a business and in choosing an alternative career route to regular employment (Fitzsimmons and Douglas, 2011; Krueger, Reilly, and Carsrud 2000; Schjoedt and Shaver, 2007).”
How Satisfied are the Self-Employed? A Life Domain View (2015, unknown): “…(as analyzed inmost studies as proxy for well-being) does not equal life satisfaction, but is merely one life domain amongst others, which all together determine an individual’s life satisfaction (van Praag et al. 2003; Schjoedt and Shaver 2007; Powdthavee 2012; Binder and Coad 2015).”
Making it personal: : Opportunity individuation and the shaping of opportunity beliefs (2014, background): “…this task becomes especially salient when entrepreneurship is exogenously imposed, such as when people are “pushed” into entrepreneurship because of unemployment (cf. Schjoedt and Shaver, 2007) or when they are asked to perform a decision making experiment (e.g., Mitchell and Shepherd, 2010).”
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): “Conversely, for various negative reasons, some are pushed into entrepreneurship (Gilad and Levine, 1986) by factors such as dissatisfaction with existing employment (Schjoedt and Shaver, 2007), unemployment (Lawrence and Hamilton, 1997), or a career setbacks (Gilad and Levine, 1986).”
Should I stay or should I go? Career choice intentions of students with family business background (2011, background): “…contributed to the emergence of a theory of entrepreneurial career specifying various personal characteristics, cognitions, emotions, and social conditions that lead an individual to choose a career as a founder versus an employee (Hayward et al., 2006; Schjoedt and Shaver, 2007; Sinclair, 2008).”
Small but attractive: Dimensions of new venture employer attractiveness and the moderating role of applicants' entrepreneurial behaviors (2017, background): “Although we know quite well why and under what conditions individuals decide to become entrepreneurs (e.g., Parasuraman et al., 1996; Schjoedt and Shaver, 2007; Souitaris et al., 2007; Wilson et al., 2007), our knowledge about attracting employees to new ventures is very limited (Cardon and…”
The roles of learning orientation and passion for work in the formation of entrepreneurial intention (2013, background): “…entrepreneurial intention reflects his or her level of interest in starting a business (Fitzsimmons and Douglas, 2011; Krueger et al., 2000; Lent et al., 1994), which provides a professional trajectory that is an alternative to regular employment (Lent et al., 2004; Schjoedt and Shaver, 2007).”
Motivational factors in a push‐pull theory of entrepreneurship (2009, background): “These results showed that the decision to leave employment was not due to job dissatisfaction (Schjoedt and Shaver, 2007).”