Entrepreneurial intentions: The influence of organizational and individual factors

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

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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; selfefficacy strengthens the job-satisfaction to entrepreneurial intentions relationship.

Keywords: Entrepreneurial; intentions; Job; satisfaction; Self-efficacy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L26 M13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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