PROJECT TITLE :

The Individual Environment Nexus: Impact of Promotion Focus and the Environment on Academic Scientists’ Entrepreneurial Intentions

ABSTRACT:

Employing a sample of academic scientists, we show that promotion focus interacts with the work and family environments to predict tutorial scientists’ entrepreneurial intentions. Concretely, we realize that the link between promotion focus and entrepreneurial intentions is significantly strong when scientists’ oldsters have owned a business and once they work in laboratories with a lot of trade-financed research. As such, our study complements previous research into entrepreneurial intentions in academia, which has got to a large extent focused on individual characteristics as determinants of such intentions. We highlight the very important role of the environment in encouraging tutorial entrepreneurship. Without a supportive setting, high promotion focus people are unlikely to become entrepreneurs. Our study has implications for the entrepreneurship literature, in specific tutorial entrepreneurship, and we tend to call for a lot of research on the individual–environment nexus.