Entrepreneurial intentions: The influence of organizational and individual factors

Lena Lee, Poh Wong (), Maw Der Foo and Aegean Leung

Journal of Business Venturing, 2011, vol. 26, issue 1, 124-136

Abstract: An individual's intent to pursue an entrepreneurial career can result from the work environment and from personal factors. Drawing on the entrepreneurial intentions and the person-environment (P-E) fit literatures, and applying a multilevel perspective, we examine why individuals intend to leave their jobs to start business ventures. Findings, using a sample of 4192 IT professionals in Singapore, suggest that work environments with an unfavorable innovation climate and/or lack of technical excellence incentives influence entrepreneurial intentions, through low job satisfaction. Moderating effects suggest that an individual's innovation orientation strengthens the work-environment to job-satisfaction relationship; self-efficacy strengthens the job-satisfaction to entrepreneurial intentions relationship.

Keywords: Entrepreneurial; intentions; Job; satisfaction; Self-efficacy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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