Having Entrepreneurial Friends and Following Them? The Role of Friends’ Displayed Emotions in Students’ Career Choice Intentions

Fei Zhu, Shea Xuejiao Fan () and Li Zhao ()
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Fei Zhu: Nottingham University Business School China, Ningbo, 315100, China
Shea Xuejiao Fan: School of Management, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, 3000, Australia
Li Zhao: School of Business Administration, Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance, Pudong New District, Shanghai, China

Journal of Enterprising Culture (JEC), 2019, vol. 27, issue 04, 445-470

Abstract: Emotions have a social effect in that individuals’ emotions, attitudes, decisions, and behavior are affected by their perceptions of others’ emotions through social interactions. We introduce the social influence of emotions perspective to the career intentions literature and demonstrate how entrepreneurial friends’ work-related emotions influence university students’ entrepreneurial career intentions. Using an experimental design (N=283), we reveal that entrepreneurial friends’ displayed positive emotions directly encourage students’ entrepreneurial career intentions, whereas negative emotions discourage students’ intentions indirectly by reducing the perceived desirability of being an entrepreneur. Our research contributes to the literature on career intentions, entrepreneurial intention, and emotions in the entrepreneurship context.

Keywords: Entrepreneurial career intentions; social influence of emotions; displayed emotions; perceived desirability; university students (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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