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Abstract
Entrepreneurship lies at the intersection of the individual and opportunity. Entrepreneurs must negotiate among their personal resources and life demands as they develop their ventures. However, there is little research on how entrepreneurial work context affects the individual and how entrepreneurs use their personal, social and family resources to cope with entrepreneurial demands. This paper proposes a moderated mediation model in which self-leadership is presented as a cognitive resource that moderates the effects of entrepreneurial demands and resources in order to reduce entrepreneurial exhaustion and increase engagement thus leading to fewer exit intentions and more growth intentions. Implications for future research and practice are discussed.
L’entrepreneuriat se situe à l’intersection de l’individu et de l’opportunité. Les entrepreneurs doivent négocier entre leurs ressources personnelles et les exigences de la vie alors même qu’ils développent leurs entreprises. Il existe néanmoins peu d’études sur la manière dont le contexte du travail entrepreneurial affecte l’individu et sur la manière dont les entrepreneurs utilisent leurs ressources personnelles, sociales et familiales pour faire face aux exigences entrepreneuriales. Cet article propose un modèle de médiation modérée dans lequel l’auto-leadership est présenté comme une ressource cognitive qui modère les effets des exigences et des ressources entrepreneuriales afin de réduire l’épuisement entrepreneurial et d’accroître l’engagement, conduisant ainsi à moins d’intentions de se retirer de l’entreprise et à davantage d’intentions de la développer. Les implications pour de futurs travaux de recherche et pour la pratique sont discutées.
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Christopher P. Neck
Dr Christopher P. Neck is currently an associate professor of management at Arizona State University, where he holds the title ‘University Master Teacher.’ From 1994 to 2009, he was part of the Pamplin College of Business Faculty at Virginia Tech. He received his PhD degree in management from Arizona State University and his MBA degree from Louisiana State University. Dr Neck specializes in employee/executive fitness, self-leadership, leadership, group decision-making processes, and self-managing teams. He has over 90 publications in the form of books, chapters, and articles in various journals.
Jeffery D. Houghton
Jeffery D. Houghton is an associate professor of management at West Virginia University. His research interests include leadership, self-leadership, and entrepreneurship. He holds a PhD degree in human resource management, organizational behavior, and labor relations from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He has published more than 40 journal articles, books, and book chapters, and his work has been cited over 1000 times in academic journals.
Shruti R. Sardeshmukh
Dr Shruti R. Sardeshmukh is a lecturer at the School of Management in University of South Australia. She completed her PhD in management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in the USA and MBA from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (India). Her research revolves around people issues in entrepreneurial and family businesses.
Michael Goldsby
Dr Mike Goldsby is a professor of entrepreneurship at Ball State University.
Jeffrey L. Godwin
Dr Jeffrey L. Godwin is an associate professor of management in the Alex G. McKenna School of Business, Economics, and Government at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. His educational background includes a PhD degree in management from Virginia Tech, an MBA degree from West Virginia University, and an M.Div. from Wesley Theological Seminary. His research interests include self-leadership and transformational leadership.
