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International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal
Published in: International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal 4/2021

16-09-2021

Why do some academic entrepreneurs experience less role conflict? The impact of prior academic experience and prior entrepreneurial experience

Authors: Hui Zhang, Yuan Mo, Dong Wang

Published in: International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal | Issue 4/2021

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Abstract

Despite the growing interest in academic entrepreneurs’ role conflict, we have not gained sufficient insights into its antecedents. Based on social learning theory, we examine how academic entrepreneurs’ prior experience—prior academic experience and prior entrepreneurial experience—influence their role conflict. Through multilevel linear regression and robustness tests using data from 394 academic entrepreneurs, we show that prior academic experience positively impacts role conflict, while prior entrepreneurial experience negatively impacts role conflict. Moreover, the negative effect of academic experience is weaker for academic entrepreneurs who have a longer length of prior entrepreneurial experience. Our study contributes to the literature on the antecedents of academic entrepreneurs’ role conflict and has important practical implications for academic entrepreneurial project cultivation and selection.
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Footnotes
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For example, if there is a missing value in the role conflict scale, we regressed role conflict with the remaining 4 items. This method has been proven effective and efficient for self-reported scales, especially when the number of missing values is small (approximately 10%)(Shrive et al., 2006).
 
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Metadata
Title
Why do some academic entrepreneurs experience less role conflict? The impact of prior academic experience and prior entrepreneurial experience
Authors
Hui Zhang
Yuan Mo
Dong Wang
Publication date
16-09-2021
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal / Issue 4/2021
Print ISSN: 1554-7191
Electronic ISSN: 1555-1938
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11365-021-00764-4

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