Full circle support: unpacking the relationship between women entrepreneurs’ family-to-work support and work interference with family

Dirk De Clercq (), Eugene Kaciak () and Narongsak (Tek) Thongpapanl ()
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Dirk De Clercq: Brock University
Eugene Kaciak: Brock University
Narongsak (Tek) Thongpapanl: Brock University

International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 2023, vol. 19, issue 1, No 13, 343-367

Abstract: Abstract With an anchoring in conservation of resources theory, this study examines the mediating role of women entrepreneurs’ work-related emotional exhaustion in the relationship between their family-to-business support and work interference with family, as well as the moderating role of the entrepreneurial character of their company’s strategy in this process. Survey data collected from women entrepreneurs in Argentina indicate that a notable reason that business support received from the family diminishes work interference with that same family is that it abates the sense of being overburdened by work. This benefit of reduced exhaustion is especially prominent to the extent that women entrepreneurs pursue an energy-consuming, entrepreneurial strategy for their business. For entrepreneurship scholars and practitioners, this research accordingly reveals a critical channel through which supportive family relationships can decrease the probability that women entrepreneurs bring work challenges home (i.e., diminished depletion of work energy), and it shows how this explanatory factor varies with the strategic profile they adopt for their business.

Keywords: Family-to-business support; Women entrepreneurs; Work-related emotional exhaustion; Work interference with family; Entrepreneurial strategy; Conservation of resources theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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