A biosocial model of entrepreneurship: the combined effects of nurture and nature

By Roderick E. White, Stewart Thornhill, Elizabeth Hampson. 2007

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Sex, Gender, and Decisions at the Family → Work Interface (2010, background): “…1 indicates, a wide range of familydomain factors may influence decisions in the work domain, including family background (e.g., Ng et al., 2007; White et al., 2007), family structure (e.g., D. Carr, 1996; Feldman, 2002), family demands and responsibilities (e.g., Belcourt, 1991; Maertz &…”
Evolutionary Perspectives on Workplace Gossip: Why and How Gossip Can Serve Groups (2010, background): “For example, White, Thornhill, and Hampson (2007) test the hypothesis that the presence of biological hormones such as testosterone might be related to a person’s proclivity toward being an entrepreneur.”
Gender and risk: women, risk taking and risk aversion (2010, background): “While this stereotype is socially constructed, it may also have a biological basis ( White et al. , 2007”
Ovulation, Female Competition, and Product Choice: Hormonal Influences on Consumer Behavior (2011, background): “…are associated with mating effort, social dominance, and entrepreneurship (Mazur and Booth 1998; Mehta, Jones, and Josephs 2008; Saad and Vongas 2009; White, Thornhill, and Hampson 2007), and men’s testosterone is known to decrease when men get married and become fathers (Burnham et al. 2006).”
Parental role models and the decision to become self-employed: The moderating effect of personality (2012, background): “Finally, children in an entrepreneurial family can benefit from being mentored by their parents and by accessing the business networks of their parents (Kim et al. 2006; White et al. 2007).”
Individual Determinants of Self-Employment Entry – What Do We Really Know? (2013, unknown): “…2011); (ii) transference of specific human capital, namely knowledge about parental occupations/businesses and contacts (Kim et al., 2006; White et al., 2007); (iii) financial conditions, i.e., access to wealth or income, which may, on the one hand, improve the resources available to the…”
Biology and Selection into Entrepreneurship—The Relevance of Prenatal Testosterone Exposure (2016, result): “In line with the view that “human mind is [not] like a blank slate which is written upon by our parents, schools and culture” (White et al., 2007, p. 451), our results add to the empirical evidence that entrepreneurial behavior is related to biological factors such as genes and hormones (e.g.,…”
Family and non-family business resilience in an economic downturn (2012, background): “experience)? This argument is quite well documented in entrepreneurship literature (Roderick et al. 2007) but insufficiently considered in family business literature.”