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The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurial Attitudes and Intention: Hysteresis and Persistence

Journal of Small Business Management, 2013
Do entrepreneurship education programs (EEPs) really influence participants’ attitudes and intention toward entrepreneurship?
Fayolle, A., Gailly, B.
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The Power of Motivation–Goal Fit in Predicting Entrepreneurial Persistence

Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal, 2014
We 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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Utility maximization? An expectancy view of entrepreneurial persistence

Management Research Review, 2011
PurposeThe 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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"Entrepreneurial Experience, Metacognitive Experience, Metacognitive Knowledge and Persistence"

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2013
We 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, Trayan Kushev, Manju K. Ahuja, Dalong Ma   +3 more
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Entrepreneurial orientation as a mediator of the environmental hostility to the persistence of nascent enterprises' relationship

Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Administration
The current study investigated the relationship between environmental hostility and the persistence of nascent enterprises and tested the mediation effect of entrepreneurial orientation (innovativeness, proactiveness and risk-taking).
C. Onwe, E. Attah, John Aikhomu
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The Psychological Origins of Entrepreneurial Life Path Engagement and Persistence

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2017
The entrepreneurial career exemplifies engaged, persistent goal pursuit in the face of obstacles, frequent setbacks and high risk of failure.
Cristina Martinez Sosa, Peter Thomas Bryant   +1 more
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Entrepreneurial Persistence: Family Business Focus on Nonfinancial Benefits

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2013
When 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, Eric Shaunn Mattingly, Trayan Kushev, Manju K. Ahuja   +3 more
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Igniting passion, inspiring employees: how entrepreneurial leadership fuels entrepreneurial persistence

Management Decision
Based on social learning theory, this study investigates how and when employees’ entrepreneurial persistence behaviour can be inspired by entrepreneurial leadership.
Yixin Zhang, Pengxin Yu, Bing Liu
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Committed to the venture or the family? A study of entrepreneurial persistence in distressed ventures

Small Business Economics, 2021
Karlien Coppens, Mirjam Knockaert
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Failing businesses: a longitudinal study of the influence of passion on entrepreneurial persistence

Revue de l’Entrepreneuriat / Review of Entrepreneurship
Elément moteur du processus entrepreneurial, la passion a été analysée comme source de persistance dans les phases de développement. Mobilisant le cadre théorique des émotions, cette étude analyse l’influence de la passion en situation d’échec. Une étude longitudinale de douze ans, mêlant étude de cas multiple et entretiens, porte sur des entrepreneurs
Johanna Edelbloude, Carole Botton
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