The relationship of entrepreneurial traits, skill, and motivation to subsequent venture growth.

By J. Baum, Edwin A. Locke. Journal of Applied Psychology, 2004

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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The effect of early entrepreneurship education: Evidence from a field experiment (2014, background): “Finally, motivating skills are associated with new venture growth (Baum and Locke, 2004) as well as better labor market outcomes in general (Borghans et al., 2006).”
Review of skill and the entrepreneurial process (2013, background): “The dominant paradigm – positivism – raises the issues of precise definition and conceptualisation of the skill, its objective measurement and the issue of causation, that skill (or skilled behaviour) results in outcomes such as direct and measurable improvements in job-performance, which is posited”
Research on small-firm growth : A review (2005, background): “An excellent and recent example is Baum and Locke's (2004) psychological study of determinants of firm growth.”
Entrepreneurial persistence beyond survival: Measurement and determinants (2019, background): “We drew from research that proposes founding/founder effects to explain variance in new venture performance (Baum & Locke, 2004; Boeker, 1989; Stinchcombe, 1965) to identify a set of relevant persistence predictors.”
Self-regulation and moral awareness among entrepreneurs (2009, background): “A person with strong entrepreneurial self-efficacy will tend to exhibit greater confidence and commitment in entrepreneurial situations, as well as a stronger sense of moral identity and greater persistence in maintaining moral values and proximal self-guides (Bandura, 1997; Baum and Locke, 2004).”
Rising from the Ashes: Cognitive Determinants of Venture Growth after Entrepreneurial Failure (2015, background): “…terms of the degree to which individuals believe they are capable of performing the roles and tasks associated with pursuing an entrepreneurial career, which includes founding, managing, and growing new ventures (Baum & Locke, 2004; Boyd & Vozikis, 1994; Chen, Greene, & Crick, 1998; Forbes, 2005).”