Job satisfaction and self-employment: autonomy or personality?

By T. Lange. 2012

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

Attitude Toward Entrepreneurship: Structure, Prediction from Behavioral Beliefs, and Relation to Entrepreneurial Intention (2016, methodology): “…between increased autonomy from self-employment and the generally higher income that traditional employment offers (Croson and Minniti 2012; Lange 2012) by showing that the control over career composite, consisting of autonomy and authority, was the most significant predictor of both…”
Dispositional Positive and Negative Affect and Self-Employment Transitions: The Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction (2019, background): “Self-employment is associated with higher rewards in terms of fulfillment of basic psychological needs such as autonomy (Benz & Frey, 2008; Lange, 2012).”
Individual responses to firm failure : Appraisals, grief, and the influence of prior failure experience (2014, background): “These two characteristics have been found to be important contributors to job satisfaction among the self-employed and also contribute more significantly to job satisfaction when the self-employed are compared with regular employees (Hundley, 2001; Lange, 2012).”
Entrepreneurs’ Mental Health and Well-Being: A Review and Research Agenda (2018, background): “Yet in the shorter term, optimism benefitted entrepreneurs’ MWB as reported in a 25-week diary study (Totterdell et al., 2006) and in a cross-sectional study on samples from 19 European countries (Lange, 2012).”
The rise of the entrepreneurial economy and the future of dynamic capitalism (2013, background): “It has been shown that, in spite of long and intense working hours under a high level of uncertainty, the self-employed have higher job-satisfaction levels than employees (Blanchflower and Oswald, 1998; Millan et al., 2013; Lange, 2012).”
Knowledge and entrepreneurial employees: a country-level analysis (2013, background): “These entrepreneurs make a living with these activities and might even be relatively happy with this (Benz and Frey 2008; Lange 2012).”