The interplay of core self-evaluation and entrepreneurial self-efficacy in predicting entrepreneurial orientation

Wayne H. Stewart, Whitney O. Peake and Amy E. Ingram

Journal of Small Business Management, 2023, vol. 61, issue 6, 2909-2937

Abstract: Given limited attention to the individual-level antecedents of entrepreneurial orientation in small business ventures, this study explores two antecedents, core self-evaluation and entrepreneurial domain-specific self-efficacy, and links a disposition with a cognition in predicting small business owner-managers’ choice of entrepreneurial orientation. We specify and test a partially mediated model with a large sample of owners who are the principal decision-makers in their ventures. The results demonstrate that there is no significant direct relationship between owner-managers’ core self-evaluations and their choice of entrepreneurial orientation in the venture, but that entrepreneurial domain-specific self-efficacy significantly mediates the relationship, extending the discussion about the development of entrepreneurial orientations.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1080/00472778.2021.1951279

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