Founder, Academic, or Employee? A Nuanced Study of Career Choice Intentions

Philipp Sieger and Erik Monsen

Journal of Small Business Management, 2015, vol. 53, issue S1, 30-57

Abstract: We add novel insights to the debate about why individuals choose to start their own firm by comparing entrepreneurial intentions to the intentions to work at a university as an academic and to be employed in a private firm. To model this more complex set of career choices, we examine novel multiplicative aspects of the theory of planned behavior () and test our hypotheses on survey data of 15,866 students from 13 European countries. Multinomial logistic regression analyses reveal how the different elements influence career preferences and demonstrate the moderating effects of perceived controllability and desirability.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1111/jsbm.12181

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