Igniting the entrepreneurial spirit: is the role parents play gendered?

By Jodyanne Kirkwood. 2007

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

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Citations in the corpus

Determinants of Entrepreneurial Intention Among Undergraduate Students in Malaysia (2016, background): “The importance of the role models on the inclination towards entrepreneurship is widely discussed in the literature (e.g. Karimi et al. 2013; Kirkwood 2007).”
Gender, Risk, and Venture Creation Intentions (2015, background): “Parental role models may be stronger for male graduate entrepreneurs than for female ones (Kirkwood 2007).”
Individual Determinants of Self-Employment Entry – What Do We Really Know? (2013, unknown): “…from this literature, most studies (e.g., Sanders and Nee, 1996; Fairlie, 1999; Dunn and Holtz-Eakin, 2000; Drennan et al., 2005; Hundley, 2006; Kirkwood, 2007; Barnir and Mclaughlin, 2011; Eren and Sula, 2012; Fritsch and Sorgner, 2013) suggest that having a parent with self-employment…”
Effects of role models and gender on students’ entrepreneurial intentions (2014, background): “Studies show that the presence of role models within the family, relatives or friends can strongly influence the entrepreneurial intentions and activities of students (BarNir et al., 2011; Carr and Sequeira, 2007; Carsrud, Olm, and Eddy, 1987; Chlosta et al., 2012; Davidsson and Honig, 2003; de Cler”
Inclination towards entrepreneurship among university students: an empirical study of Malaysian university students (2011, methodology): “The demographic characteristics and family business background Much research has been suggested the influence of demographic and family background on individual’s inclination towards entrepreneurship (for example Koh 1995; Koh 1996; Reitan 1997; Breen 1998; Lin, Picot et al. 2000; Dunn 2004; Smith 2”
The impact of story bound entrepreneurial role models on self‐efficacy and entrepreneurial intention (2012, unknown): “The contribution of role models to new venture creation is documented both by career development (Gibson, 2004) and entrepreneurship literature (Bosma et al., 2011; Douglas and Shepherd, 2001; Kirkwood, 2007).”
On the relationship between emotional intelligence and entrepreneurial attitudes and intentions (2009, background): “Students having parents who owned a business reported higher proactivity, entrepreneurial attitudes and intentions providing evidence on the relative importance of interactions between role models and entrepreneurial intent (Kirkwood, 2007).”