Entrepreneurial motivation and self-employment: evidence from expectancy theory

By Virginia Barba-Sánchez, Carlos Atienza-Sahuquillo. The International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 2017

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One effect of the economic crisis on the business world has been the drastic reduction in staff and this in turn highlights the need for self-employment and the creation of new companies to establish a solid industrial fabric to support the creation of wealth, employment and welfare. In this context, the aim of this research is to confirm a theoretical model based on Expectancy Theory to explain self-employment in terms of an individual’s motivation and ability to start a business. Because of the lack of additional information about entrepreneurial motivation, we conducted a field investigation of Spanish self-employed workers who had established a manufacturing company during the last three years. The results confirm the supposition that expectancy, instrumentality and valence enhance entrepreneurial motivation. This study concludes that businesses are created not only by those with the ability and aptitude to do so, but also by those with the motivation.

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

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Personality traits and theory of planned behavior comparison of entrepreneurial intentions between an emerging economy and a developing country (2019, background): “Prior research focusing on TPB has argued that knowledge is still lacking regarding the role of several influencing factors necessary for a robust theory (Barba-Sánchez and Atienza-Sahuquillo, 2017; Roy et al., 2017).”
Individual entrepreneurial orientation, entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention: The mediating role of entrepreneurial motivations (2021, background): “Other studies have shown that entrepreneurial motivations act as a determining factor in the development of EI – for example, Nabi and Liñán (2013); Solesvik (2013); Antonioli et al. (2016); Barba-Sánchez and Atienza-Sahuquillo (2017) and Lang and Liu (2019).”
Entrepreneurship Education through Successful Entrepreneurial Models in Higher Education Institutions (2020, background): “The results reported by studies such as those of Barba-Sánchez and Atienza-Sahuquillo [77] and Al-Jubari, Hassan, and Liñán [80] stress the significant role that schools and universities play in motivating students in the development of their entrepreneurial career.”
Formal Institutions and Opportunity Entrepreneurship. The Contingent Role of Informal Institutions (2019, background): “Entrepreneurship has become a phenomenon of paramount importance that is receiving increasing attention in recent years (Acs, 2006; Wennekers et al., 2005; Barba-Sánchez and Atienza-Sahuquillo, 2017).”