Former coworkers' entrepreneurial performance and employee entrepreneurship: a social learning perspective
Zeng, Kai and Wang, Duanxu and Millman, Cindy and Li, Zhengwei and Xu, Yujing (2024) Former coworkers' entrepreneurial performance and employee entrepreneurship: a social learning perspective. Current Psychology, 43. pp. 25186-25200. ISSN 1936-4733
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Different employee entrepreneurship events in a firm are usually considered mutual independent. In fact, these events are interpersonally dependent in most cases, whereby leads to an unresolved issue that how employee entrepreneurship spreads through interpersonal influence (interactions between former coworkers and employees) in organizations. Drawing on social learning theory, this study aims to test and verify how former coworkers’ entrepreneurial performance impacts focal employee entrepreneurship. Survey data were collected at two different time points (with a three-week interval) from 218 full-time employees working in China. We found that employee entrepreneurial self-efficacy mediated the relationship between former coworkers’ entrepreneurial performance and employee entrepreneurial intention. This mediating effect was strengthened by the similarity of entrepreneurial resources and employee risk propensity. By clarifying the premise, mechanism and conditions of social influence in regard to employee entrepreneurship, this study advances our understanding of employee entrepreneurship. This study highlights the interpersonal influence effects of employee entrepreneurship. Moreover, it employs social learning theory to provide a detailed explanation of the mechanisms underlying these interpersonal influence effects in the context of employee entrepreneurship.
This version of the article has been accepted for publication, after peer review (when applicable) and is subject to Springer Nature’s AM terms of use, but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-024-06199-8
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