Self-Employment as a Career Choice: Attitudes, Entrepreneurial Intentions, and Utility Maximization

By E. Douglas, Dean A. Shepherd. 2002

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

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Determinant factors of entrepreneurial intention among university students in Brazil and Portugal (2019, background): “Douglas and Shepherd (2002) found a relationship between entrepreneurial attitude and the intention to be self-employed.”
Entrepreneurial aspirations, motivations, and their drivers (2008, background): “Second, there are cost-benefit types of studies that try to explain the decision to (intent to) start a business (Douglas and Shepherd 2002).”
Latent and Actual Entrepreneurship in Europe and the US: Some Recent Developments (2005, background): “…this approach can be found in Bates (1990), Blanchflower (2004), Blanchflower and Meyer (1994), Blanchflower and Oswald (1998), Blau (1987), Douglas and Shepherd (2002), Evans and Leighton (1989, 1990), Grilo and Irigoyen (2005), Grilo and Thurik (2004), Lin, Picot, and Compton (2000),…”
The Family's Financial Support as a “Poisoned Gift”: A Family Embeddedness Perspective on Entrepreneurial Intentions (2017, background): “Also, a comparative analysis that investigates the likelihood that a career as an entrepreneur is preferred to another career choice may provide additional nuanced insights (Douglas and Shepherd 2002; Kolvereid and Isaksen 2006; Krueger et al. 2000).”
A Cross-Cultural Approach to Understanding Entrepreneurial Intention (2012, background): “Several models aim to explain entrepreneurial intentions such as the Entrepreneurial Event Model of Shapero (1982), the Model of Implementing Entrepreneurial Ideas (Bird, 1988) or Maximization of the Expected Utility (Douglas & Shepherd, 2002).”
Entrepreneurship as a career choice: intentions, attitudes, and outcome expectations (2019, background): “For example, an individual could view entrepreneurial behavior as either an opportunity for independence and autonomy (Shepherd and Douglas 1999) or an opportunity to generate greater income (e.g. Douglas and Shepherd 2002; Segal, Borgia, and Schoenfeld 2002).”
The Role of Gender Stereotypes in Perceptions of Entrepreneurs and Intentions to Become an Entrepreneur (2009, result): “This conceptualization of entrepreneurship as self-employment is generally consistent with extant entrepreneurship literature (Douglas & Shepherd, 2002; Kolvereid & Isaksen, 2006).”
The Relationship between Entrepreneurship Education and Entrepreneurial Intentions: A Meta–Analytic Review (2014, background): “For example, Douglas and Shepherd (2002) said that no actual entrepreneurship will occur without sufficient opportunities and required funding even if there are the strongest entrepreneurial intentions.”
The impact of story bound entrepreneurial role models on self‐efficacy and entrepreneurial intention (2012, positive): “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).”
Entrepreneurial intention in the time of crisis: a field study (2016, background): “Douglas and Shepherd (2002) show that individuals with a strong inclination in favor of autonomy and risk-taking are particularly oriented towards entrepreneurial choices.”
A Review of Nontraditional Teaching Methods: Flipped Classroom, Gamification, Case Study, Self-Learning, and Social Media (2019, background): “Self-Learning Select desired area of learning [94] Improve learning effectiveness [108] Make possible lifelong learning [109] Suitable for learners of any age [108] Improve research skills [110] Learn from a wide range of areas and fields [98] Improve concentration for learning [98] Enhance proficie”
Parental role models and the decision to become self-employed: The moderating effect of personality (2012, result): “This variable has the advantages that it is consistent with many existing studies and models of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial behavior (Douglas and Shepherd 2000, 2002; De Witt and Van Winden 1989; White et al. 2007), and with macrolevel studies investigating the impact of self-employment on…”