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A Theory of Optimal Entrepreneurial Persistence
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2016Persistence typifies the behavior of almost all successful entrepreneurs. However, persistence, which usually serves entrepreneurs well because they push through difficult times to create successfu...
Alan D. Boss, Rhonda K. Reger, Jiaju Yan
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Entrepreneurial Persistence: Family Business Focus on Nonfinancial Benefits
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2013When facing attractive alternatives, family business entrepreneurs are faced with decisions regarding whether to continue their current business or abandon their business to focus on new projects.
Dalong Ma +3 more
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Need for achievement, business goals, and entrepreneurial persistence
Management Research News, 2007PurposeThe purpose of the study is to employ the need theory to investigate whether a need for achievement has an effect on persistence behavior among entrepreneurs, and whether a need for achievement and business goals interact to influence such persistence.Design/methodology/approachA longitudinal study of nascent entrepreneurs was conducted by a ...
Dagher, Grace K. +2 more
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"Entrepreneurial Experience, Metacognitive Experience, Metacognitive Knowledge and Persistence"
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2013We use threshold theory to examine the extent to which individuals’ entrepreneurial experience, metacognitive experience, and metacognitive knowledge moderate the influence that certain aspects of ...
Eric Shaunn Mattingly +3 more
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Entrepreneurial Persistence Through the Bureaucratic Age
Business History Review, 1977Taking issue with such earlier theorists as Schumpeter, who believed that the rise of bureaucratic structures would stifle the innovative process that lies at the heart of capitalism and thus lead on to socialism, Professor Livesay discusses the careers of three innovative leaders who used the bureaucratic form of organization to keep innovation alive ...
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Examining the Antecedents and Outcome of Entrepreneurial Persistence
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2019In this paper we examine the impact of the external environment on entrepreneurial persistence, and its impact on firm performance.
Mujtaba Ahsan, Albert Danso
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The Roles of Personality and Regulatory Focus in Entrepreneurial Persistence Decisions
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2021The decision for entrepreneurs of whether to persist with a new business or discontinue its operation when confronted with negative feedback from the market is one of the most challenging decisions...
Farzaneh Noghani, William L. Gardner
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Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies
Purpose Entrepreneurial persistence is a crucial decision-making aspect of entrepreneurial activities. Analyzing the factors that influence entrepreneurial persistence can provide support for entrepreneurs to remain perseverant in their ventures, thereby increasing the survival and success rates of new enterprises ...
Jinjiang He +4 more
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Purpose Entrepreneurial persistence is a crucial decision-making aspect of entrepreneurial activities. Analyzing the factors that influence entrepreneurial persistence can provide support for entrepreneurs to remain perseverant in their ventures, thereby increasing the survival and success rates of new enterprises ...
Jinjiang He +4 more
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Utility maximization? An expectancy view of entrepreneurial persistence
Management Research Review, 2011PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the use of expectancy and valence in the decision policies of entrepreneurs when choosing whether or not to persist with their current venture.Design/methodology/approachUsing a conjoint experiment design, 105 entrepreneurs made a series of decisions based on a common set of attributes.
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The Power of Motivation–Goal Fit in Predicting Entrepreneurial Persistence
Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal, 2014We employed a longitudinal approach and surveyed a sample of 90 nascent entrepreneurs to test our hypothesis that because entrepreneurs differ in both motivation and organizational goals, it is the fit between organizational goals and need for achievement that is a more powerful predictor of entrepreneurial persistence than is the combined effect of ...
Haifeng Zhao, Sibin Wu
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