Entrepreneurial Self–Efficacy: Refining the Measure

By Jeffrey E. Mcgee, M. Peterson, Stephen L. Mueller, J. M. Sequeira. 2009

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

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How do resilience and self-efficacy relate to entrepreneurial intentions in countries with varying degrees of fragility? A six-country study (2020, background): “Accordingly, ESE is the degree to which individuals believe they can perform entrepreneurial roles and tasks (McGee et al., 2009).”
Social Entrepreneurial Intention Formation of Corporate Volunteers (2013, background): “Many researchers consider self-efficacy a multidimensional construct (McGee et al. 2009).”
Creativity, self-efficacy, and small-firm performance: the mediating role of entrepreneurial orientation (2015, background): “…because entrepreneurial activity includes a large number of potential tasks and associated skills: ‘‘From a purely pragmatic perspective, it is much easier to measure general self-efficacy than to explicitly capture the nuances of entrepreneurial self-efficacy’’ (McGee et al. 2009, p. 969).”
Pathways of Passion (2014, background): “In a recent review, McGee et al. (2009) surveyed 25 empirical articles published in the previous 10 years specifically concerning entrepreneurial self-efficacy.”
The impact of entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurial self-efficacy and gender on entrepreneurial intentions of university students in the Visegrad countries (2019, methodology): “This paper makes a strong point that research linking entrepreneurial self-efficacy with entrepreneurial intentions would benefit from the use of more refined measures of entrepreneurial self-efficacy, such as the one developed by McGee et al. (2009).”
Entrepreneurial alertness as a pathway to strategic decisions and organizational performance (2018, background): “…distinct from other potentially related constructs, such as (i) creativity (r = 0.26; Kaufman and Baer, 2004), (j) entrepreneurial self-efficacy (r = 0.23; McGee et al., 2009), and personality dimensions such as (k) extraversion (r = 0.18) and (l) openness to experience (r = 0.31; Goldberg, 1993).”
Success, Failure, and Entrepreneurial Reentry: An Experimental Assessment of the Veracity of Self–Efficacy and Prospect Theory (2017, background): “In going through the business planning process, the students were thus engaging in nascent entrepreneurial activities and should be considered nascent entrepreneurs (Katz & Gartner, 1988; McGee et al., 2009; Souitaris, Zerbinati, & Al-Laham, 2007).”
International entrepreneurship: A critical analysis of studies in the past two decades and future directions for research (2012, background): “These constructs are found to be a robust measure of explaining entrepreneurial actions (Baum and Locke 2004; Baum et al. 2001; Erikson 2002; Ardichvili et al. 2003; Forbes 2005; Shepherd and DeTienne 2005; Zahra et al. 2005; McGee et al. 2009).”
The Family's Financial Support as a “Poisoned Gift”: A Family Embeddedness Perspective on Entrepreneurial Intentions (2017, methodology): “Entrepreneurial self-efficacy is one of the main drivers of entrepreneurial intentions (McGee et al. 2009; Schlaegel and Koenig 2014); it reflects an individual’s conviction that he or she will be able successfully to perform the relevant entrepreneurial tasks, such as the creation and management…”
The theory of planned behavior in entrepreneurship research: what we know and future directions (2015, methodology): “With the recent development of an ESE measurement scale (Chen et al. 1998; McGee et al. 2009), more empirical research of the Perceived Behavioral Control to Entrepreneurial Intentions relationship should be carried out.”
The role of inspiring role models in enhancing entrepreneurial intention (2019, methodology): “Finally, following McGee et al.'s (2009) multi-construct approach to ESE, the current study is able to show that not only are some of the self-efficacy dimensions needed to develop high entrepreneurial intentions, =Presence of a condition =Absence of a condition Blank cell=“Don't care”.”
Entrepreneurial self-efficacy: A systematic review of the literature on its theoretical foundations, measurement, antecedents, and outcomes, and an agenda for future research (2019, methodology): “Compared to other multi-dimensional measures of ESE which capture ESE in relation to general activities undertaken by the entrepreneur, the McGee et al. (2009) measure captures ESE in different phases of the venture creation and development process.”
In the Eye of the Beholder: How Regulatory Focus and Self-Efficacy Interact in Influencing Opportunity Recognition (2011, neutral): “In line with this reasoning, the recent entrepreneurship literature has advocated using taskspecific rather than general measures of self-efficacy when studying entrepreneurial behavior (e.g., Chen et al., 1998; Kolvereid and Isaksen, 2006; McGee et al., 2009).”