Need for achievement, business goals, and entrepreneurial persistence

By Sibin Wu, Matthews, Grace K. Dagher. 2007

168 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Business and International Management, Education, Management of Technology and Innovation

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/88f9c48b785b24d8f843121d04b7bf53e29b92bc

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In Business and International Management

1. C. Stevens
2. John Kitching
3. Dilani Jayawarna
4. Pankaj C. Patel
5. Marco Caliendo
6. Denis A. Grégoire
7. Colleen P. Kirk
8. Melissa S. Cardon

In Education

1. C. Stevens
2. Pankaj C. Patel
3. Marco Caliendo
4. Denis A. Grégoire
5. Colleen P. Kirk
6. Melissa S. Cardon

In Management of Technology and Innovation

1. Melissa S. Cardon
2. Colleen P. Kirk
3. Pankaj C. Patel
4. Denis A. Grégoire
5. C. Stevens
6. M. Weissenberger
7. John Kitching
8. Dilani Jayawarna

Citations in the corpus

• Entrepreneurial persistence beyond survival: Measurement and determinants (2019, background): “…p. Cardon and Kirk (2015), q. DeTienne, McKelvie, and Chandler (2015), r. DeTienne et al. (2008), s. Holland and Garrett (2015), t. Holland and Shepherd (2013), u. Wu, Matthews, and Dagher (2007) with increased cognitive abilities, leading to higher levels of productivity at work (Becker, 1964).”
• Entrepreneur motivations and life course (2013, background): “…literature Many entrepreneurial motivations have been proposed (Birley and Westhead, 1994; Carter et al., 2003; Cassar, 2007; Shane et al., 1991; Wu et al., 2007) including: • economic gain; • desire for achievement, independence and control; • personal development; • improved social status; •…”
• Measuring entrepreneurial passion: Conceptual foundations and scale validation (2013, methodology): “In similar fashion, we assess the relationship between EP (specifically EP for founding and developing) and persistence (Shane et al., 2003; Wu et al., 2007), based on the view that the experience of EP encourages the entrepreneur to engage in activities that reinforce his or her self-identify and…”
• Entrepreneurial Passion as Mediator of the Self–Efficacy to Persistence Relationship (2015, methodology): “…research has found evidence that self-efficacy has a strong relationship with persistence (Bandura, 1991; Latham & Locke, 2006; Shane et al., 2003; Wu et al., 2007), but given that entrepreneurial passion has also been suggested to have an influence on engaged goal pursuit (Cardon et al., 2009),…”