TY - JOUR
T1 - Understanding Entrepreneurial Intent in Late Adolescence
T2 - The Role of Intentional Self-Regulation and Innovation
AU - Geldhof, G. John
AU - Weiner, Michelle
AU - Agans, Jennifer P.
AU - Mueller, Megan K.
AU - Lerner, Richard M.
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Acknowledgments This article was supported by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation. We thank Bill Damon, Anne Colby, and all of our colleagues at the Stanford Center on Adolescence for their assistance designing and collecting data for the Young Entrepreneurs Study.
PY - 2014/1
Y1 - 2014/1
N2 - Entrepreneurship represents a form of adaptive developmental regulation through which both entrepreneurs and their ecologies benefit. We describe entrepreneurship from the perspective of relational developmental systems theory, and examine the joint role of personal attributes, contextual attributes, and characteristics of person-context relationships in predicting entrepreneurial intent in a sample 3,461 college students enrolled in colleges and universities in the United States (60 % female; 61 % European American). Specifically, we tested whether personal characteristics (i.e., gender, intentional self-regulation skills, innovation orientation) and contextual factors (i.e., entrepreneurial parents) predicted college students' intentions to pursue an entrepreneurial career. Our findings suggest that self-regulation, innovation orientation, and having entrepreneurial role models (i.e., parents) predict entrepreneurial intent. Limitations and future directions for the study of youth entrepreneurship are discussed.
AB - Entrepreneurship represents a form of adaptive developmental regulation through which both entrepreneurs and their ecologies benefit. We describe entrepreneurship from the perspective of relational developmental systems theory, and examine the joint role of personal attributes, contextual attributes, and characteristics of person-context relationships in predicting entrepreneurial intent in a sample 3,461 college students enrolled in colleges and universities in the United States (60 % female; 61 % European American). Specifically, we tested whether personal characteristics (i.e., gender, intentional self-regulation skills, innovation orientation) and contextual factors (i.e., entrepreneurial parents) predicted college students' intentions to pursue an entrepreneurial career. Our findings suggest that self-regulation, innovation orientation, and having entrepreneurial role models (i.e., parents) predict entrepreneurial intent. Limitations and future directions for the study of youth entrepreneurship are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1007/s10964-013-9930-8
DO - 10.1007/s10964-013-9930-8
M3 - Article
C2 - 23430563
AN - SCOPUS:84891623423
SN - 0047-2891
VL - 43
SP - 81
EP - 91
JO - Journal of youth and adolescence
JF - Journal of youth and adolescence
IS - 1
ER -