Entrepreneurial role models, fear of failure, and institutional approval of entrepreneurship: a tale of two regions

By Michael Wyrwich, Michael Stuetzer, Rolf Sternberg. 2016

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

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Industry structure, entrepreneurship, and culture: An empirical analysis using historical coalfields (2016, background): “Role models enhance the perceived attractiveness of entrepreneurship as a career choice among peer groups (for details, see Fornahl, 2003; Wyrwich et al., 2015).”
The role of inspiring role models in enhancing entrepreneurial intention (2019, background): “The role of context, whether national, ethnic or spatial, was proven important for the intergenerational mechanisms of self-employment transmission (Wyrwich, Stuetzer, & Sternberg, 2016).”
Entrepreneurs’ human capital and growth aspirations: the moderating role of regional entrepreneurial culture (2019, background): “More specifically, the existence of high levels of approval of entrepreneurship in a region (Wyrwich et al. 2016) may strengthen the perceived ability of entrepreneurs with higher”
Entrepreneurship in the Agricultural Sector: A Literature Review and Future Research Opportunities (2018, background): “Given the history of policy support and recent reforms, the agricultural sector is a particularly apposite setting to study how the interplay between formal and informal institutions at different levels (sector, region, and nation) affects entrepreneurial activities at the micro level (Wyrwich et al”
Country-level entrepreneurial attitudes and activity through the years: A panel data analysis using fsQCA (2020, unknown): “Using data from the GEM project, Wyrwich, Stuetzer, and Sternberg (2016) found that environmental context (related to opportunity and capability) is also important in determining how fear of failure and observed entrepreneurial opportunity affect one another.”
The impact of role models on entrepreneurial intentions and behavior: a review of the literature (2020, background): “To summarize, if entrepreneurs and observers live within the same geographical area, this effect has been found to be more pronounced (Wyrwich et al. 2018).”