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Frank Halter
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Dr.
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Halter
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Frank
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frank.halter@unisg.ch
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+41 71 224 71 00
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PublicationShould I stay or should I go? Career choice intentions of students with family business backgroundPersonal and motivational patterns of intentional founders have been researched in great depth; however, antecedents to career choices of intentional successors have been conspicuously missing in entrepreneurship research. By drawing on theory of planned behavior, we investigate how intentional founders, successors, and employees differ in terms of locus of control and entrepreneurial self-efficacy as well as independence and innovation motives. We find that transitive likelihood of career intent depends on degree of entrepreneurial self-efficacy and the independence motive. Unexpectedly, we see that high levels of internal locus of control lead to a preference of employment, which challenges traditional entrepreneurship research and suggests that the feasibility of an entrepreneurial career path does not automatically make it desirable. Our findings suggests that students with family business background are pessimistic about being in control, but optimistic about their efficacy to pursue an entrepreneurial careerType: journal articleJournal: Journal of Business VenturingVolume: 26Issue: 5
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PublicationUnternehmertum von Studierenden im internationalen Vergleich : Internationaler Bericht aus dem Global University Entrepreneurial Spirit Students' Survey (GUESSS 2008)(KMU-HSG - Schweizerisches Institut für Klein- und Mittelunternehmen an der Universität St. Gallen, 2009)
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PublicationLe comportement entrepreneurial des étudiants en Suisse : Résultats du Global University Entrepreneurial Students' Spirit Survey (GUESSS 2008)(KMU-HSG - Schweizerisches Institut für Klein- und Mittelunternehmen an der Universität St. Gallen, 2009)Baldegger, RicoType: work report