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High Growth Aspirations of Nascent Entrepreneurs: Why Do They Fall?

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Zięba K.

Studia i Materiały

2017

issue 1/2017(23)

94-102

Intention-based research becomes more and more popular in various domains, including entrepreneurship. Achieving growth by a business must be planned or at least consciously accepted by the business owner. That is why it is vital to take growth intentions into account when trying to predict growth of business. Personal attitude of an entrepreneur towards growth is important from the very beginning of business operations or even before that. Nascent entrepreneurs also have their growth aspirations during the business founding process, and those aspirations affect both this process and the subsequent growth of a new business. The aim of this paper is to investigate growth aspirations of nascent entrepreneurs in comparison to the attitudes of actual entrepreneurs towards the growth of their businesses. Additionally, this paper offers indirect answers to the question on what kind of mechanism – Lamarckian adaptation or Darwinian negative selection – may be responsible for a gradual lowering of growth aspirations expressed by nascent entrepreneurs.

Rola intencji jako przedmiotu badań naukowych zyskuje na znaczeniu w obrębie różnych dziedzin, włączając w to także przedsiębiorczość. Osiąganie wzrostu przez firmę musi być wynikiem działań planowanych lub przynajmniej akceptowanych przez właściciela firmy. Dlatego intencje wzrostowe muszą być brane pod uwagę, gdy chce się przewidzieć wzrost firmy. Osobisty stosunek przedsiębiorcy do kwestii wzrostu firmy jest ważny od samego początku jej funkcjonowania, a nawet wcześniej. Preprzedsiębiorcy w trakcie procesu założycielskiego również mają pewne aspiracje wzrostowe, które mogą oddziaływać zarówno na sam proces założycielski, jak i na późniejszy wzrost firmy. Celem tego artykułu jest zbadanie aspiracji wzrostowych preprzedsiębiorców i porównanie ich z nastawieniem do wzrostu wykazywanym przez faktycznie działających przedsiębiorców. Przeprowadzone badanie pozwala również pośrednio odpowiedzieć na pytanie o to, jaki mechanizm jest odpowiedzialny za stopniowe obniżanie się aspiracji wzrostowych: adaptacja (zgodnie z teorią Lamarcka) czy negatywna selekcja (zgodnie z teorią Darwina).

Testing Students’ Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy as an Early Predictor of Entrepreneurial Activities. Evidence From the SEAS Project

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Zięba K., Golik J.

Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation

2018

vol. 14

issue 1

91-108

Over the last forty years, since Bandura (1977) introduced the concept of self-efficacy, there have been a constantly growing number of research publications using this concept. Its early development resulted in the creation of a new construct of entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE) proposed for the first time by (Chen et al. 1998). Since then, many different groups of research concerning ESE have emerged - one of them is the study of ESE of students. With regard to this particular group, a recent tendency to study ESE in a pre-post setting can be noticed i.a. Karlsson, Moberg (2013), Shinnar, Hsu, Powell (2014), Ismail, Zain, Zulihar (2015). Due to the increasing interest in entrepreneurial self-efficacy research and the need to fill the gap in the literature with regard to European post-communist countries (and particularly – Poland) (Drnovsek, Wincent, Cardon, 2010), in this paper we present a brief overview of ESE research and pose the question whether ESE of Polish students can serve as an early predictor of their subsequent entrepreneurial activities, potentially leading them to nascent entrepreneurship. The research material was collected from the SEAS (Survey on Entrepreneurial Attitudes of Students) Project carried out at the Faculty of Management and Economics, Gdańsk University of Technology. The research sample was composed of 72 students - ESE was measured in a pre-post setting using a single item based on a five-point Likert scale. One of the research conclusions is that ESE manifested by student-beginners seems to influence their later entrepreneurial behavior in a statistically significant way - potentially making ESE a valuable early predictor of future entrepreneurial activities. In the concluding part of the study, limitations are discussed and future study developments are indicated.

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High Growth Aspirations of Nascent Entrepreneurs: Why Do They Fall?

Testing Students’ Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy as an Early Predictor of Entrepreneurial Activities. Evidence From the SEAS Project