TY - JOUR
T1 - What determines the entrepreneurial success of academics? Navigating multiple social identities in the hybrid career of academic entrepreneurs
AU - Guo, Feng
AU - Restubog, Simon
AU - Cui, Lin
AU - Bo, Zou
AU - Choi, Yoona
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Institutional support and pressure for academic researchers to engage with industry and business stakeholders have increasingly enabled and incentivized academics to embrace an entrepreneurial identity. Based on social identity theory, this study examines the mediated relationship among entrepreneur identification, role integration, and entrepreneurship performance of academics. We also propose that this mediated relationship is moderated by academic entrepreneur's social capital inertia and adaptability of task approach. We tested our model using a sample of 248 academic entrepreneurs from China over three measurement periods. Our empirical results indicate that role integration mediates the positive relationship between entrepreneur identification of academics and academic entrepreneurship performance. This mediated relationship is weakened by academic entrepreneurs' social capital inertia and is strengthened by their adaptability of task approach. These findings offer important implications for individual academics and academic institutions to effectively promote academic entrepreneurship.
AB - Institutional support and pressure for academic researchers to engage with industry and business stakeholders have increasingly enabled and incentivized academics to embrace an entrepreneurial identity. Based on social identity theory, this study examines the mediated relationship among entrepreneur identification, role integration, and entrepreneurship performance of academics. We also propose that this mediated relationship is moderated by academic entrepreneur's social capital inertia and adaptability of task approach. We tested our model using a sample of 248 academic entrepreneurs from China over three measurement periods. Our empirical results indicate that role integration mediates the positive relationship between entrepreneur identification of academics and academic entrepreneurship performance. This mediated relationship is weakened by academic entrepreneurs' social capital inertia and is strengthened by their adaptability of task approach. These findings offer important implications for individual academics and academic institutions to effectively promote academic entrepreneurship.
U2 - 10.1016/j.jvb.2019.03.003
DO - 10.1016/j.jvb.2019.03.003
M3 - Article
VL - 112
SP - 241
EP - 254
JO - Journal of Vocational Behaviour
JF - Journal of Vocational Behaviour
ER -