Does money matter?: Wealth attainment as the motive for initiating growth-oriented technology ventures

By Raphael Amit, K. MacCrimmon, Charlene Zietsma, John M. Oesch. 2001

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Entrepreneurial mindset: Dispositional beliefs, opportunity beliefs, and entrepreneurial behavior (2021, background): “Research finds that innovation and vision are more important to entrepreneurs than wealth creation (Amit et al., 2001) and are motivated by “an individual’s intention to accomplish something new” (Carter et al., 2003, p. 14).”
The Social Dimensions of Entrepreneurship (2005, positive): “Still, while the literature's lack of measurement on alternative options is a weak point, the preponderance of survey evidence from the entrepreneurship literature does still at least suggest that entrepreneurs often had more lucrative alternatives inside established firms (see Amit et al. 2001).”
Entrepreneurship as a non-profit-seeking activity (2009, neutral): “Amit et al. (2000) show for a sample of Canadian high technology entrepreneurs that personal wealth attainment is significantly less important for their decision to found a firm than an aggregate index of ten other work dimensions; moreover, compared to a control group of technology managers that…”