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Psychological implications of the COVID ‐19 pandemic around the world: Introduction to the special issue
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 19-07-2021
DOI: 10.1002/IJOP.12793
Abstract: Although psychological researchers have long studied the implications of major crises, the outbreak and spread of the COVID‐19 pandemic have confronted the global community of psychologists and psychological researchers with new challenges. This special issue contributes to the growing empirical literature on the immediate psychological implications of the COVID‐19 pandemic. We present and discuss erse work from authors that followed our call for papers in May 2020, shortly after the World Health Organisation declared COVID‐19 a global pandemic. The studies focus on the early phases of the pandemic by addressing (a) implications of the pandemic for psychological well‐being and mental health, (b) psychological effects of lockdown scenarios as well as (c) in idual compliance with COVID‐19 prevention and intervention measures. We conclude by highlighting the need for new research efforts, with a special focus on low‐ and middle‐income regions, international research collaborations and cross‐cultural research designs.
Entrepreneurial Self-Identity: Predictors and Effects Within the Theory of Planned Behavior Framework
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 04-11-2014
The Development of Entrepreneurship: Person x Context Interactions
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-11-2015
DOI: 10.1002/IJOP.12232
Entrepreneurial Regions: Do Macro-Psychological Cultural Characteristics of Regions Help Solve the “Knowledge Paradox” of Economics?
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 22-06-2015
Historical industrialisation, path dependence and contemporary culture: the lasting imprint of economic heritage on local communities
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 26-03-2021
DOI: 10.1093/JEG/LBAB010
Abstract: Culture matters for regional economic development and is one source of cognitive lock-in that influences path creation and dependency. However, little is known about the sources of regional variation in culture. This study explores the long-term imprinting effect of the Industrial Revolution on cultural practices across local communities in Great Britain. Historical data from 1891 on the employment in large-scale industries (e.g. textiles and steel) is used to estimate causal effects of industrialisation on five cultural dimensions. It is found that historical industrialisation is still reflected in contemporary local cultures marked by lower engagement with education and employment, less adherence to social rules but stronger collective action and social cohesion. It is concluded that one reason for the relatively poor effect of the public policies on local and regional economic development is that historical industrialisation has left a lasting legacy on contemporary culture in many places that impairs institutional efforts to foster change.
A personality perspective on business angel syndication✰
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2019
Perceived new demands associated with socioeconomic change: A challenge to job security?
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2015
Abstract: Our study focuses on everyday manifestations of contemporary socioeconomic change. For a s le of young- and middle-aged German employees gathered in 2008 ( N = 281), we investigate the relationship of perceived rising demands regarding (a) the labor market and (b) the workplace context with subjective job insecurity. Regression analyses reveal a positive effect of rising labor market demands on job insecurity, which is buffered by education. The effect of education on job insecurity is mediated by rising labor market demands. Rising workplace demands show no effect on job insecurity for West German employees. In contrast, East Germans who experience rising workplace demands report lower levels of job insecurity. Results are discussed with a particular focus on rising demands in employment relationships.
Local housing market dynamics predict rapid shifts in cultural openness: A 9-year study across 199 cities.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 09-2021
DOI: 10.1037/AMP0000812
Abstract: Accumulating evidence suggests that culture changes in response to shifting socioecological conditions economic development is a particularly potent driver of such change. Previous research has shown that economic development can induce slow but steady cultural changes within large cultural entities (e.g., countries). Here we propose that economically driven culture change can occur rapidly, particularly in smaller cultural entities (e.g., cites). Drawing on work in cultural dynamics, urban economics, and geographical psychology, we hypothesize that changes in local housing prices-reflecting changing availability of local amenities-can induce rapid shifts in local cultures of Openness. We propose two mechanisms that might underlie such cultural shifts: selective migration (i.e., people selectively moving to cities that offer certain amenities) and social acculturation (i.e., people adapting to changing amenities in their city). Based on trait Openness scores of 1,946,752 U.S. residents, we track annual changes in local Openness across 199 cities for 9 years (2006-2014). We link these data to annual information on local housing markets, an established proxy for local amenities. To test interdependencies between the time series of local housing markets and Openness, we use Panel Vector Autoregression modeling. In line with our hypothesis, we find robust evidence that rising housing costs predict positive shifts in local Openness but not vice versa. Additional analyses leveraging participants' duration of residence in their city suggest that both selective migration and social acculturation contribute to shifts in local Openness. Our study offers a new window onto the rapid changes of cultures at local levels. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
Addressing common method variance and endogeneity in vocational behavior research: A review of the literature and suggestions for future research
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2020
Innovation and inter-city knowledge spillovers: Social, geographical, and technological connectedness and psychological openness
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2023
Regional characteristics, opportunity perception and entrepreneurial activities
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 25-04-2014
What drives solo and team startups at European universities? The interactive role of entrepreneurial climate, gender, and entrepreneurship course participation
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-10-2023
Public Business Advice in the Founding Process: An Empirical Evaluation of Subjective and Economic Effects
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 2011
DOI: 10.1068/C10126R
Abstract: We investigate economic and subjective effects of public business advice delivered to nascent entrepreneurs in Germany. We analyze data from the Thuringian Founder Study, an interdisciplinary research project on innovative entrepreneurship. Employing cluster analysis, we first explore the actual scope and intensity of business advice used. Two distinct groups of policy take-up can be identified: (1) use of intense assistance across all areas, and (2) use of less-intensive assistance being limited to operational issues. Then we analyze personal entrepreneurial resources (human and social capital, entrepreneurial personality profile) as predictors of take-up and perceived usefulness taking into account the different patterns of utilized advice. Finally, we assess economic effects by studying subsequent business performance employing propensity score matching. We cannot reveal that business advice translated into better start-up performance, but our results indicate that advice may help founders with fewer resources to overcome barriers in the founding process. We find that a lack of personal entrepreneurial resources predicts take-up of business advice in general as well as perceived usefulness of comprehensive business advice.
Job burnout and work engagement in entrepreneurs: How the psychological utility of entrepreneurship drives healthy engagement
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2023
Balanced skills among nascent entrepreneurs
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 17-03-2013
Personal agency in newly arrived refugees: The role of personality, entrepreneurial cognitions and intentions, and career adaptability
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2018
Regional personality differences predict variation in COVID-19 infections and social distancing behavior
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 06-08-2020
Abstract: The early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic revealed stark regional variation in the spread of the virus. Combining self-reported personality data (3.5M people) with COVID-19 prevalence rates and behavioral mobility observations (29M people) in the US and Germany, we show that regional personality differences can help explain the early transmission of COVID-19 this is true even after controlling for a wide array of important socio-demographic, economic, and pandemic-related factors. We use specification curve analyses to test the effects of regional personality in a robust and unbiased way. The results indicate that in the early stages of COVID-19, Openness-to-experience acted as a risk factor while Neuroticism acted as a protective factor. The findings also highlight the complexity of the pandemic by showing that the effects of regional personality can differ (i) across countries (Extraversion), (ii) over time (Openness) and (iii) from those previously observed at the in idual level (Agreeableness and Conscientiousness).
Parental Network Imprinting in Spinoffs: Understanding the Underlying Mechanisms
Publisher: Academy of Management
Date: 08-2019
Nascent entrepreneurship and the developing individual: Early entrepreneurial competence in adolescence and venture creation success during the career
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2011
Regional variation in courage and entrepreneurship: The contrasting role of courage for the emergence and survival of start-ups in the United States.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-02-2019
DOI: 10.1111/JOPY.12454
Abstract: There is growing evidence that certain regional personality differences function as important drivers of regional economic development (e.g., via effects on entrepreneurship and innovation activity). The present investigation examines the impact that regional variation in the trait courage has on entrepreneurship. Using data from a new large-scale internet-based study, we provide the first psychological map of courage across the United States (N = 390,341 respondents from 283 U.S. metropolitan regions). We apply regression analyses to relate regional courage scores to archival data on the emergence and survival of start-ups across American regions. Our mapping approach reveals comparatively high levels of regional courage in the Eastern and Southern regions of the United States. Regional courage scores were positively related to entrepreneurial activity, but negatively related to start-up survival-even when controlling for a wide variety of standard economic predictors. Several robustness checks corroborated these results. Finally, regional differences in economic risk-taking accounted for significant proportions of variance in the relationship between regional courage and entrepreneurship. Our results suggest that regional courage may contribute to a pattern of enterprising and also risky economic behavior, which can lead to high levels of entrepreneurial activity but also shorter start-up survival.
In the shadow of coal: How large-scale industries contributed to present-day regional differences in personality and well-being.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 11-2018
DOI: 10.1037/PSPP0000175
Abstract: Recent research has identified regional variation of personality traits within countries but we know little about the underlying drivers of this variation. We propose that the Industrial Revolution, as a key era in the history of industrialized nations, has led to a persistent clustering of well-being outcomes and personality traits associated with psychological adversity via processes of selective migration and socialization. Analyzing data from England and Wales, we examine relationships between the historical employment share in large-scale coal-based industries (coal mining and steam-powered manufacturing industries that used this coal as fuel for their steam engines) and today's regional variation in personality and well-being. Even after controlling for possible historical confounds (historical energy supply, education, wealth, geology, climate, population density), we find that the historical local dominance of large-scale coal-based industries predicts today's markers of psychological adversity (lower Conscientiousness [and order facet scores], higher Neuroticism [and anxiety and depression facet scores], lower activity [an Extraversion facet], and lower life satisfaction and life expectancy). An instrumental variable analysis, using the historical location of coalfields, supports the causal assumption behind these effects (with the exception of life satisfaction). Further analyses focusing on mechanisms hint at the roles of selective migration and persisting economic hardship. Finally, a robustness check in the U.S. replicates the effect of the historical concentration of large-scale industries on today's levels of psychological adversity. Taken together, the results show how today's regional patterns of personality and well-being (which shape the future trajectories of these regions) may have their roots in major societal changes underway decades or centuries earlier. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).
Spin-off Versus Start-up Intentions: A Tale of Two Passions
Publisher: Academy of Management
Date: 2014
The Making of Entrepreneurial Human Capital: Origins and Development of Skill Variety
Publisher: Academy of Management
Date: 08-2017
A new perspective on entrepreneurial regions: linking cultural identity with latent and manifest entrepreneurship
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 22-07-2016
Psychische Belastung bei deutschsprachigen jugendlichen und heranwachsenden Inhaftierten in der Hafteingangssituation
Publisher: Brill Deutschland GmbH
Date: 02-2010
DOI: 10.13109/PRKK.2010.59.2.101
Abstract: The objective of the present study was to examine psychological distress among adolescent and young adult prisoners within the first two weeks of imprisonment. In addition, their psychosocial background was explored. A total s le of N = 180 newly imprisoned males was investigated with regard to psychosocial distress, medical history, drug use, as well as socioeconomic and forensic background. Data were collected using the SCL-90-R and a standardized clinical documentation. The prevalence of cases with clinical relevant levels of psychological distress (clinical case) was high (69.4%). Many probands showed a remarkable history of drug use, delinquency, and other problem behavior prior to the imprisonment. Multiple regression and logistic regression analyses revealed that mental disorders of parents or siblings, foreign nationality, and somatic diseases were risk factors for psychological distress. The results underscore the need for improved clinical care in terms of psycho diagnostics, prevention, and intervention.
The imprinting effects of parent firms on the evolution of young spinoff alliance networks
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-10-2022
Regionale Unterschiede der Verteilung von Personen mit unternehmerischem Persönlichkeitsprofil in Deutschland – ein Überblick
Publisher: Oekom Publishers GmbH
Date: 28-02-2018
DOI: 10.1007/S13147-018-0519-2
Abstract: Recent research has found clear indications of regional differences in the personality traits of the population. Such regional differences may significantly contribute to explaining regional development. We provide an overview of regional differences in entrepreneurial personality traits among the population in Germany. There are a number of highly significant regional differences but the strength of the effects is relatively small. The empirical evidence suggests that the regional differences found are due to selective migration and also to socialization.
Closing the gender gap in entrepreneurship: The importance of skill variety
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 08-07-2022
DOI: 10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0270976
Abstract: Given that skill variety is widely regarded a key component of entrepreneurial human capital, gender differences in entrepreneurship could be rooted in the formation of such skill variety. Analyzing 12-year longitudinal data following 1,321 Finnish adolescents into adulthood, we study whether gender differences in skill variety open up early in the vocational development of entrepreneurs vs. non-entrepreneurs, thereby contributing to the persisting gender gap in entrepreneurship in adulthood. Specifically, structural equation modeling was used to test and compare the mediating effect of early skill variety in adolescence vs. education- and work-related skill variety in early adulthood on the gender gap in entrepreneurial intentions in adulthood. We find that education- and work-related skill variety indeed operate as an obstacle for women entrepreneurship, despite women outperforming men in early skill variety in adolescence. Hence, we identify a critical turning point in early adulthood where women fall behind in their development of entrepreneurial human capital.
Human behaviour and economic growth: A psychocultural perspective on local and regional development
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 22-06-2018
Abstract: A renewed emphasis on behavioural traits has emerged as a means of explaining regional and local differences in economic performance and development. Given this, the aim of this study is to identify distinct local psychocultural behavioural profiles, and to examine the extent to which these are associated with economic growth. Combining theories of community culture and personality psychology into a holistic spatially oriented perspective, the paper argues that the types of human behaviour found across local places emerges from the co-evolution of cultural and personality factors. An empirical analysis of localities in Great Britain identifies and explores three underlying psychocultural profiles: Diverse Extraversion Inclusive Amenability and In idual Commitment. It is found that inclusive amenable and in idually committed psychocultural behaviour generally appear to hold back local economic growth, with the exception of recessionary periods. The reverse relationship is somewhat the case for erse extravert behaviour. It is concluded that a better understanding of the holistic relationship and co-evolution of the cultural and psychological behavioural make-up of localities and regions has the potential to provide new insights into expected development outcomes as well as the forms of policy intervention that are required within regions and localities, each of which has its own in idual psychocultural character.
Do You Fake More Because of Your Neighbors? A Multi-level Study on Regional and Individual Predictors of Faking Intentions Across the USA
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 21-01-2020
Explaining Entrepreneurial Behavior: Dispositional Personality Traits, Growth of Personal Entrepreneurial Resources, and Business Idea Generation
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2012
Agency culture, constitutional provisions and entrepreneurship: a cross-country analysis
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 05-12-2017
DOI: 10.1093/ICC/DTX047
Neuroticism mediates the relationship between industrial history and modern‐day regional obesity levels
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 28-08-2021
DOI: 10.1111/JOPY.12581
Off to New Shores: Knowledge Spillovers Between Economics and Psychology or How I Published with David Audretsch in PLOS One
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2019
Entrepreneurial self-efficacy: A systematic review of the literature on its theoretical foundations, measurement, antecedents, and outcomes, and an agenda for future research
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2019
Scientists’ transition to academic entrepreneurship: Economic and psychological determinants
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2012
Ownership versus management effects on performance in family and founder companies: A Bayesian reconciliation
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2011
Big Data, artificial intelligence and the geography of entrepreneurship in the United States
Publisher: CABI Publishing
Date: 24-05-2018
Abstract: There is increasing interest in the potential of artificial intelligence and Big Data (e.g., generated via social media) to help understand economic outcomes and processes. But can artificial intelligence models, solely based on publicly available Big Data (e.g., language patterns left on social media), reliably identify geographical differences in entrepreneurial personality/culture that are associated with entrepreneurial activity? Using a machine learning model processing 1.5 billion tweets by 5.25 million users, we estimate the Big Five personality traits and an entrepreneurial personality profile for 1,772 U.S. counties. We find that these Twitter-based personality estimates show substantial relationships to county-level entrepreneurship activity, accounting for 20% (entrepreneurial personality profile) and 32% (all Big Five trait as separate predictors in one model) of the variance in local entrepreneurship and are robust to the introduction in the model of conventional economic factors that affect entrepreneurship. We conclude that artificial intelligence methods, analysing publically available social media data, are indeed able to detect entrepreneurial patterns, by measuring territorial differences in entrepreneurial personality/culture that are valid markers of actual entrepreneurial behaviour. More importantly, such social media datasets and artificial intelligence methods are able to deliver similar (or even better) results than studies based on millions of personality tests (self-report studies). Our findings have a wide range of implications for research and practice concerned with entrepreneurial regions and eco-systems, and regional economic outcomes interacting with local culture.
Integrating psychological approaches to entrepreneurship: the Entrepreneurial Personality System (EPS)
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 05-01-2017
The gender Gap in Entrepreneurship and the Big Five Traits: A three- Country Analysis
Publisher: Academy of Management
Date: 2013
The regional employment effects of new social firm entry
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 08-05-2020
DOI: 10.1007/S11187-020-00345-9
Abstract: As a contribution to research and theorizing on the economic role of new firm formation, we undertake the first ever investigation of regional employment effects of the entry of new social firms. Our study is guided by an established model of the employment effects of new firm entry over time and provides a direct comparison to the employment effects of commercial entrants. Our results show that the net employment effect of new social firms follows a wave pattern over the study’s eight-year horizon, apparently produced by the same combination of direct and indirect effects previously theorized for new commercial entrants. The results also indicate that net employment effect per social firm entrant is larger than for commercial firms. The study provides a first empirical assessment of employment creation effects of new social firms and contributes to a more nuanced theoretical understanding of employment effects across types of entrants. By specifying the economic contribution of social firms our study can open up a new track in social entrepreneurship research and provide important input to employment policy.
Macropsychological Factors Predict Regional Economic Resilience During a Major Economic Crisis
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 22-10-2015
Abstract: Do macropsychological factors predict “hard” economic outcomes like regional economic resilience? Prior approaches to understanding economic resilience have focused on regional economic infrastructure. In contrast, we draw on research highlighting the key role played by psychological factors in economic behaviors. Using large psychological data sets from the United States ( n = 935,858) and Great Britain ( n = 417,217), we characterize region-level psychological correlates of economic resilience. Specifically, we examine links between regions’ levels of psychological traits and their degree of economic slowdown (indexed by changes in entrepreneurial vitality) in the wake of the Great Recession of 2008–2009. In both countries, more emotionally stable regions and regions with a more prevalent entrepreneurial personality makeup showed a significantly lower economic slowdown. This effect was robust when accounting for regional differences in economic infrastructure. Cause cannot be inferred from these correlational findings, but the results nonetheless point to macropsychological factors as potentially protective factors against macroeconomic shocks.
Entrepreneurial Passion and Personality: The Case of Academic Entrepreneurship
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 09-01-2019
Unraveling the “passion orchestra” in academia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2016
Entrepreneurship culture, knowledge spillovers and the growth of regions
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 22-03-2017
Adolescent Pathways to Entrepreneurship
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 25-06-2016
DOI: 10.1111/CDEP.12185
Entrepreneurial personalities in political leadership
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 25-07-2017
Did Strategic Bombing in the Second World War Lead to ‘German Angst’? A Large–Scale Empirical Test across 89 German Cities
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-2017
DOI: 10.1002/PER.2104
Abstract: A widespread stereotype holds that the Germans are notorious worriers, an idea captured by the term German angst. An analysis of country–level neurotic personality traits (trait anxiety, trait depression, and trait neuroticism N = 7 210 276) across 109 countries provided mixed support for this idea Germany ranked 20th, 31st, and 53rd for depression, anxiety, and neuroticism, respectively, suggesting, at best, the national stereotype is only partly valid. Theories put forward to explain the stereotypical characterization of Germany focus on the collective traumatic events experienced by Germany during World War II (WWII), such as the massive strategic bombing of German cities. We thus examined the link between strategic bombing of 89 German cities and today's regional levels in neurotic traits ( N = 33 534) and related mental health problems. Contrary to the WWII bombing hypothesis, we found negative effects of strategic bombing on regional trait depression and mental health problems. This finding was robust when controlling for a host of economic factors and social structure. We also found Resilience × Stressor interactions: Cities with more severe bombings show more resilience today (lower levels of neurotic traits and mental health problems in the face of a current major stressor—economic hardship). Copyright © 2017 European Association of Personality Psychology
Pursuing Impactful Entrepreneurship Research Using Artificial Intelligence
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 16-06-2020
Abstract: It is time for the entrepreneurship field to come to terms with leading-edge artificial intelligence (AI). AI holds great promise to transform entrepreneurship into a more relevant and impactful field, but it must overcome conflicts between the AI-driven research approach and that of the traditional, theory-based research process. We explore these opportunities and challenges and suggest concrete approaches that entrepreneurship researchers can use to harness the power of AI with rigor and enhance research relevance. We conclude that incorporating the power of AI in entrepreneurship research and managing the associated risks offer a new and “grand challenge” for the field.
Psychological Openness and the Emergence of Breakthrough vs. Incremental Innovations: A Regional Perspective
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-05-2022
Person–city personality fit and entrepreneurial success: An explorative study in China
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 13-08-2017
DOI: 10.1002/IJOP.12451
Abstract: While the study of personality differences is a traditional psychological approach in entrepreneurship research, economic research directs attention towards the entrepreneurial ecosystems in which entrepreneurial activity are embedded. We combine both approaches and quantify the interplay between the in idual personality make-up of entrepreneurs and the local personality composition of ecosystems, with a special focus on person-city personality fit. Specifically, we analyse personality data from N = 26,405 Chinese residents across 42 major Chinese cities, including N = 1091 Chinese entrepreneurs. Multi-level polynomial regression and response surface plots revealed that: (a) in idual-level conscientiousness had a positive effect and in idual-level agreeableness and neuroticism had a negative effect on entrepreneurial success, (b) city-level conscientiousness had a positive, and city-level neuroticism had a negative effect on entrepreneurial success, and (c) additional person-city personality fit effects existed for agreeableness, conscientiousness and neuroticism. For ex le, entrepreneurs who are high in agreeableness and conduct their business in a city with a low agreeableness level show the lowest entrepreneurial success. In contrast, entrepreneurs who are low in agreeableness and conduct their business in a city with a high agreeableness level show relatively high entrepreneurial success. Implications for research and practice are discussed.
The quest for the entrepreneurial culture: psychological Big Data in entrepreneurship research
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2017
The Effects of Work-Related Demands Associated With Social and Economic Change on Psychological Well-Being
Publisher: Hogrefe Publishing Group
Date: 27-05-2015
DOI: 10.1027/1866-5888/A000128
Abstract: This study examined perceived work-related demands emanating from social and economic change (i.e., increasing labor market uncertainties, nonstandard work hours, and job autonomy), with a special focus on work status (self-employed vs. employed). We studied a s le of young and middle-aged adults from Germany (N = 1,017). Increasing job autonomy buffered the negative effect of increasing nonstandard work hours on job satisfaction. Mediation analyses suggest that the self-employed, compared to wage-earners, enjoy higher levels of job satisfaction because they are confronted with fewer negative manifestations of change. We further found different job satisfaction effects of increasing nonstandard work hours and job autonomy in employed versus self-employed in iduals, which merits further clarification in future research.
Studying entrepreneurial occupations in the Terman women
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 16-07-2017
DOI: 10.1002/IJOP.12450
Abstract: To achieve a better understanding of entrepreneurship development in women, longitudinal data on 672 in iduals collected from 1922 to 1959 were analysed in a secondary investigation of the Terman Longitudinal Study. Women's reports on their occupations during 10 different years were assigned to one of two categories: work for pay (0/1), and work allowing for self-employment (0/1) in the respective year. Structural equation modelling supported earlier results concerning male entrepreneurial activity. Personality and aspects of the parenting context the women had experienced by the average age of 12 predicted early entrepreneurial competencies (inventions, leadership) and occupational interests by age 13, which related to an entrepreneurship-related career goal in 1936, when the participants were about 27 years of age on average. Such a career goal in turn predicted a higher number of occasions of entrepreneurship-prone work. Surprisingly, we also found a relationship to orce. Women who had experienced the failure of a marriage were in occupations with a potential for entrepreneurship more often. Reasons are discussed against a backdrop of historical timing and current findings to identify general aspects of entrepreneurship development.
Entrepreneurship: Unternehmerische Aktivität in der beruflichen Karriere
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 04-10-2017
Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy: Antecedents, Outcomes, and Agenda for Future Research
Publisher: Academy of Management
Date: 08-2018
Using digital footprints in entrepreneurship research: A Twitter-based personality analysis of superstar entrepreneurs and managers
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2017
Spinoffs’ alliance network growth beyond parental ties: performance diminishing, then performance enhancing
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 13-01-2022
DOI: 10.1007/S10490-022-09804-1
Abstract: Spinoff firms are a common phenomenon in entrepreneurship where employees leave incumbent parent firms to found their own. Like other types of new firms, such new spinoffs face liabilities of newness and smallness. Previous research has emphasised the role of the initial endowments from their parent firm to overcome such liabilities. In this study, we argue and are the first to show, that, in addition to such endowments, growing an alliance network with firms other than their parents’ is also critical for spinoff performance. Specifically, we investigate the performance effect of alliance network growth in newly founded spinoffs using a longitudinal s le of 248 spinoffs and 3370 strategic alliances in the mining industry. Drawing on theory based on the resource adjustment costs of forming alliances, we posit and find a U-shaped relationship between the alliance network growth and spinoff performance, above and beyond the parent firm’s influence. We further hypothesise and find that performance effects become stronger with increased time lags between alliance network growth and spinoff performance, and when spinoffs delay growing their alliance networks. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.
Regional personality differences predict variation in early COVID-19 infections and mobility patterns indicative of social distancing.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 04-2023
DOI: 10.1037/PSPP0000439
Abstract: The early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic revealed stark regional variation in the spread of the virus. While previous research has highlighted the impact of regional differences in sociodemographic and economic factors, we argue that regional differences in social and compliance behaviors-the very behaviors through which the virus is transmitted-are critical drivers of the spread of COVID-19, particularly in the early stages of the pandemic. Combining self-reported personality data that capture in idual differences in these behaviors (3.5 million people) with COVID-19 prevalence and mortality rates as well as behavioral mobility observations (29 million people) in the United States and Germany, we show that regional personality differences can help explain the early transmission of COVID-19 this is true even after controlling for a wide array of important sociodemographic, economic, and pandemic-related factors. We use specification curve analyses to test the effects of regional personality in a robust and unbiased way. The results indicate that in the early stages of COVID-19, Openness to experience acted as a risk factor, while Neuroticism acted as a protective factor. The findings also highlight the complexity of the pandemic by showing that the effects of regional personality can differ (a) across countries (Extraversion), (b) over time (Openness), and (c) from those previously observed at the in idual level (Agreeableness and Conscientiousness). Taken together, our findings support the importance of regional personality differences in the early spread of COVID-19, but they also caution against oversimplified answers to phenomena as complex as a global pandemic. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
Successful Entrepreneurship as Developmental Outcome
Publisher: Hogrefe Publishing Group
Date: 2011
DOI: 10.1027/1016-9040/A000075
Abstract: Applying a lifespan approach of human development, this study examined pathways to entrepreneurial success by analyzing retrospective and current data. Along the lines of McClelland’s ideas of early entrepreneurship development and Rauch and Frese’s Giessen-Amsterdam model on venture success, we investigated the roles of founders’ adolescent years (early role models, authoritative parenting, and early entrepreneurial competence), personality traits (Big Five pattern), and entrepreneurial skills and growth goals during venture creation. Findings were derived from structural equation modeling studying two comparable s les of founders (N = 531) and nascent founders (N = 100) from Germany. Across both s les, reports on age-appropriate entrepreneurial competence in adolescence and an entrepreneurial Big Five profile predicted entrepreneurial skills during venture creation, which in turn predicted founders’ setting of ambitious growth goals and entrepreneurial success. Early entrepreneurial competence was related to the availability of entrepreneurial role models and authoritative parenting during adolescence as well as to an entrepreneurial Big Five profile. In line with prospective reports on early precursors of entrepreneurship, the findings illuminate the development of entrepreneurship in general and entrepreneurial success in particular over the lifespan, especially with regard to factors relevant in the adolescent years and the interplay with personality across different developmental periods.
Personality and the Gender Gap in Self-Employment: A Multi-Nation Study
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 04-08-2014
Constellations of new demands concerning careers and jobs: Results from a two-country study on social and economic change
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2012
How Does the Preference to Work in Family Firms Depend on National Labor Market Institutions?
Publisher: Academy of Management
Date: 08-2017
A Global Experience-Sampling Method Study of Well-Being During Times of Crisis: The CoCo Project
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 16-06-2023
Abstract: We present a global experience-s ling method (ESM) study aimed at describing, predicting, and understanding in idual differences in well-being during times of crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic. This international ESM study is a collaborative effort of over 60 interdisciplinary researchers from around the world in the “Coping with Corona” (CoCo) project. The study comprises trait-, state-, and daily-level data of 7,490 participants from over 20 countries (total ESM measurements = 207,263 total daily measurements = 73,295) collected between October 2021 and August 2022. We provide a brief overview of the theoretical background and aims of the study, present the applied methods (including a description of the study design, data collection procedures, data cleaning, and final s le), and discuss exemplary research questions to which these data can be applied. We end by inviting collaborations on the CoCo dataset.
Who Reaps the Benefits of Social Change? Exploration and Its Socioecological Boundaries
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 16-02-2016
DOI: 10.1111/JOPY.12238
Abstract: We investigated the interplay between the personality trait exploration and objective socioecological conditions in shaping in idual differences in the experience of two in idual-level benefits of current social change: new lifestyle options, which arise from the societal trend toward in idualization, and new learning opportunities, which accrue from the societal trend toward lifelong learning. We hypothesized that people with higher trait exploration experience a greater increase in lifestyle options and learning opportunities--but more so in social ecologies in which in idualization and lifelong learning are stronger, thus offering greater latitude for exploring the benefits of these trends. We employed structural equation modeling in two parallel adult s les from Germany (N = 2,448) and Poland (N = 2,571), using regional orce rates as a proxy for in idualization and Internet domain registration rates as a proxy for lifelong learning. Higher exploration was related to a greater perceived increase in lifestyle options and in learning opportunities over the past 5 years. These associations were stronger in regions in which the trends toward in idualization and lifelong learning, respectively, were more prominent. In iduals higher in exploration are better equipped to reap the benefits of current social change--but the effects of exploration are bounded by the conditions in the social ecology.
Small Businesses and Entrepreneurship in Times of Crises: The Renaissance of Entrepreneur-Focused Micro Perspectives
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-02-2022
DOI: 10.1177/02662426211063390
Abstract: Prior research examining the consequences of crises for small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures has typically applied a macro-perspective, focussing on the impact of crises on business organisations and the strategies they adopt in times of crisis. In this editorial, we review the articles that form part of our special issue on ‘Small Businesses and Entrepreneurship in Times of Crises’, after introducing an entrepreneur-focused multi-level conceptual model. Highlighting the importance of integrating both micro- and macro-perspectives, the model facilitates our understanding as to how entrepreneurs and the organisations they run respond to unexpected crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. We conclude with implications for future research.
Local Housing Market Dynamics Predict Rapid Shifts in Cultural Openness: A Nine-Year Study across 199 Cities
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 10-01-2021
Abstract: Accumulating evidence suggests that culture changes in response to shifting socioecological conditions economic development is a particularly potent driver of such change. Previous re-search has shown that economic development can induce slow but steady cultural changes within large cultural entities (e.g., countries). Here we propose that economically driven culture change can occur rapidly, particularly in smaller cultural entities (e.g., cites). Drawing on work in cultural dynamics, urban economics, and geographical psychology, we hypothesize that changes in local housing prices – reflecting changing availability of local amenities – can induce rapid shifts in local cultures of Openness. We propose two mechanisms that might underlie such cultural shifts: selective migration (i.e., people selectively moving to cities that offer certain amenities) and social acculturation (i.e., people adapting to changing amenities in their city). Based on trait Openness scores of 1,946,752 U.S. residents, we track annual changes in local Openness across 199 cities for nine years (2006-2014). We link these data to annual infor-mation on local housing markets, an established proxy for local amenities. To test interdepend-encies between the time series of local housing markets and Openness, we use Panel Vector Autoregression modelling. In line with our hypothesis, we find robust evidence that rising housing costs predict positive shifts in local Openness but not vice versa. Additional analyses leveraging participants’ duration of residence in their city suggest that both selective migration and social acculturation contribute to shifts in local Openness. Our study thus offers a new window onto the rapid changes of cultures at local levels.
Fear, Populism, and the Geopolitical Landscape
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-03-2018
Abstract: Two recent electoral results—Donald Trump’s election as U.S. president and the UK’s Brexit vote—have reignited debate on the psychological factors underlying voting behavior. Both c aigns promoted themes of fear, lost pride, and loss aversion, which are relevant to the personality dimension of neuroticism, a construct previously not associated with voting behavior. To that end, we investigate whether regional prevalence of neurotic personality traits (neuroticism, anxiety, and depression) predicted voting behavior in the United States ( N = 3,167,041) and the United Kingdom ( N = 417,217), comparing these effects with previous models, which have emphasized the roles of openness and conscientiousness. Neurotic traits positively predicted share of Brexit and Trump votes, and Trump gains from Romney. Many of these effects persisted in additional robustness tests controlling for regional industrial heritage, political attitude, and socioeconomic features, particularly in the United States. The “sleeper effect” of neurotic traits may profoundly impact the geopolitical landscape.
Psychological well-being of hybrid entrepreneurs
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2022
“Confucian” traits, entrepreneurial personality, and entrepreneurship in China: a regional analysis
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 22-09-2018
Historical roots of entrepreneurship-facilitating culture and innovation activity: an analysis for German regions
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-04-2019
Where do entrepreneurial skills come from?
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2013
Age, culture, and self-employment motivation
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 19-10-2015
International psychological research addressing the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic: A rapid scoping review and implications for global psychology.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 13-12-2022
DOI: 10.1002/IJOP.12823
Abstract: In March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. Given that keeping abreast of international perspectives and research results is of particular importance for such massive global emergencies, we employed a scoping review methodology to rapidly map the field of international psychological research addressing this important early phase of the pandemic. We included a total of 79 studies, with data mostly collected between March and June 2020. This review aimed to systematically identify and map the nature and scope of international studies examining psychological aspects of the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic. We mapped key research themes, subfields of psychology, the nature and extent of international research collaboration, data methods employed, and challenges and enablers faced by psychological researchers in the early stages of the pandemic. Among the wide range of themes covered, mental health and social behaviours were the key themes. Most studies were in clinical/health psychology and social psychology. Network analyses revealed how authors collaborated and to what extent the studies were international. Europe and the United States were often at the centre of international collaboration. The predominant study design was cross-sectional and online with quantitative analyses. We also summarised author reported critical challenges and enablers for international psychological research during the COVID pandemic, and conclude with implications for the field of psychology.
Entrepreneurial Passion: A Review, Synthesis, and Agenda for Future Research
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 22-12-2019
DOI: 10.1111/APPS.12236
Can prosocial motivation harm entrepreneurs' subjective well-being?
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2019
Social identity and the transition to entrepreneurship: The role of group identification with workplace peers
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2012
What drives future business leaders? How work values and gender shape young adults' entrepreneurial and leadership aspirations
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2018
A global experience‐sampling method study of well‐being during times of crisis: The CoCo project
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 29-06-2023
DOI: 10.1111/SPC3.12813
Abstract: We present a global experience‐s ling method (ESM) study aimed at describing, predicting, and understanding in idual differences in well‐being during times of crisis such as the COVID‐19 pandemic. This international ESM study is a collaborative effort of over 60 interdisciplinary researchers from around the world in the “Coping with Corona” (CoCo) project. The study comprises trait‐, state‐, and daily‐level data of 7490 participants from over 20 countries (total ESM measurements = 207,263 total daily measurements = 73,295) collected between October 2021 and August 2022. We provide a brief overview of the theoretical background and aims of the study, present the applied methods (including a description of the study design, data collection procedures, data cleaning, and final s le), and discuss exemplary research questions to which these data can be applied. We end by inviting collaborations on the CoCo dataset.
Entrepreneurship in Cities
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2021
The growth of entrepreneurial human capital: Origins and development of skill variety
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 10-2021
DOI: 10.1007/S11187-021-00555-9
Abstract: Given that recent research on entrepreneurial behavior and success has established skill variety as a central human capital factor, researchers, educators, and policymakers have turned their interest to a deeper understanding of the formation of skill variety. Based on human capital theory and the competence growth approach in developmental psychology (highlighting long-term, age-appropriate, and cumulative skill-growth processes), we hypothesize that a broad, early variety orientation in adolescence is a developmental precursor of such entrepreneurial human capital in adulthood. This was confirmed in an analysis of prospective longitudinal data via structural equation modeling and serial mediation tests. We also find that an entrepreneurial constellation of personality traits, but not entrepreneurial parents, predicts early variety orientation, skill variety, and entrepreneurial intentions. By shedding new light on the long-term formation of entrepreneurial human capital, the results suggest that establishing and benefiting from an early variety orientation is not only an important developmental mechanism in entrepreneurial careers but gives those with an entrepreneurial personality an early head start in their vocational entrepreneurial development. Implications for future research and practice are discussed.
How Do Labor Market Institutions Influence the Preference to Work in Family Firms? A Multilevel Analysis Across 40 Countries
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 29-03-2018
Abstract: Family firms must attract talented employees to stay competitive. They have different employer characteristics than nonfamily firms. For ex le, although they generally offer lower wages, they also typically offer higher job security and a more cooperative and entrepreneurial work environment. However, drawing on occupational choice theory, we argue that the importance of these unique family firm characteristics depends on the national labor market context in which the family firm is embedded. A multilevel investigation of 12,746 in iduals in 40 countries shows that in iduals prefer to work in family firms in labor markets with flexible unregulated hiring and firing practices, centralized wage determination, and low labor–employer cooperation. A cross-level analysis further shows that the national labor market context moderates the effects of in idual-level factors determining the preference to work in a family firm (e.g., entrepreneurship intention). Our article is the first to consider labor market institutions in research on family firms as employers. Practical implications exist for family firms regarding their employer branding and intrapreneurship strategies.
Entrepreneurship as 21st Century Skill: Taking a Developmental Perspective
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 19-12-2013
Who prefers working in family firms? An exploratory study of individuals’ organizational preferences across 40 countries
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2016
Industry structure, entrepreneurship, and culture: An empirical analysis using historical coalfields
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2016
The regional distribution and correlates of an entrepreneurship-prone personality profile in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom: A socioecological perspective.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 2013
DOI: 10.1037/A0032275
Abstract: In recent years the topic of entrepreneurship has become a major focus in the social sciences, with renewed interest in the links between personality and entrepreneurship. Taking a socioecological perspective to psychology, which emphasizes the role of social habitats and their interactions with mind and behavior, we investigated regional variation in and correlates of an entrepreneurship-prone Big Five profile. Specifically, we analyzed personality data collected from over half a million U.S. residents (N = 619,397) as well as public archival data on state-level entrepreneurial activity (i.e., business-creation and self-employment rates). Results revealed that an entrepreneurship-prone personality profile is regionally clustered. This geographical distribution corresponds to the pattern that can be observed when mapping entrepreneurial activity across the United States. Indeed, the state-level correlation (N = 51) between an entrepreneurial personality structure and entrepreneurial activity was positive in direction, substantial in magnitude, and robust even when controlling for regional economic prosperity. These correlations persisted at the level of U.S. metropolitan statistical areas (N = 15) and were replicated in independent German (N = 19,842 14 regions) and British (N = 15,617 12 regions) s les. In contrast to these profile-based analyses, an analysis linking the in idual Big Five dimensions to regional measures of entrepreneurial activity did not yield consistent findings. Discussion focuses on the implications of these findings for interdisciplinary theory development and practical applications.
Artificial intelligence and big data in entrepreneurship: a new era has begun
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-06-2019
Big data methods, social media, and the psychology of entrepreneurial regions: capturing cross-county personality traits and their impact on entrepreneurship in the USA
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 28-06-2019
The Geography of Entrepreneurial Psychology
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 22-06-2021
Entrepreneurial intention as developmental outcome
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2010
Entrepreneurship as a twenty-first century skill: entrepreneurial alertness and intention in the transition to adulthood
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 10-09-2016
Rule-breaking, crime, and entrepreneurship: A replication and extension study with 37-year longitudinal data
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2013
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