The influence of individual characteristics on getting involved in an entrepreneurial team: the contingent role of individualism

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dc.contributor.authorPinzón, Nathaly
dc.contributor.authorMontero Villacampa, Javier
dc.contributor.authorGonzález Pernía, José Luis
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-09T09:51:51Z
dc.date.available2025-05-09T09:51:51Z
dc.date.issued2022-09
dc.date.updated2025-05-09T09:51:51Z
dc.description.abstractA traditional stereotype of the entrepreneur is that of a lone hero. However, many entrepreneurs engage in new businesses as members of entrepreneurial teams. These teams usually perform better in terms of employment generation, innovation, and profts. Thus, a relevant question is why some individuals get involved in entrepreneurship through a team rather than alone. Our explanation is focused on two variables related to the entrepreneur’s human capital: their educational level and their intrapreneurial experience. There are conficting arguments on how these variables lead an entrepreneur to join a team, and we argue that the degree of individualism of the society helps us understand the discrepancies. We use a sample of 66,716 earlystage entrepreneurs from 66 countries surveyed by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor between 2014 and 2017. Our results show that entrepreneurs with higher levels of education and intrapreneurial experience are more likely to be involved in the entrepreneurship process as members of teams. However, the efect of educational level is less pronounced in individualist contexts. In addition, we fnd that the motivation to enter entrepreneurship partially mediates these relationships, as individuals endowed with higher human capital are likely to enter entrepreneurship driven by an opportunistic motivation, which in turns makes them likely to need or join teams to reach their goalsen
dc.description.sponsorshipUniversidad de Zaragoza, Spain; Instituto de Nanociencia de Aragón, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spainen
dc.identifier.citationPinzón, N., Montero, J., & González-Pernía, J. L. (2022). The influence of individual characteristics on getting involved in an entrepreneurial team: the contingent role of individualism. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 18(3), 1103-1140. https://doi.org/10.1007/S11365-021-00768-0
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/S11365-021-00768-0
dc.identifier.eissn1555-1938
dc.identifier.issn1554-7191
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14454/2702
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSpringer Nature
dc.rights© 2025 Springer Nature
dc.subject.otherEducational level
dc.subject.otherEntrepreneurial teams
dc.subject.otherGEM
dc.subject.otherIndividualism
dc.subject.otherIntrapreneurial experience
dc.subject.otherOpportunity entrepreneurs
dc.titleThe influence of individual characteristics on getting involved in an entrepreneurial team: the contingent role of individualismen
dc.typejournal article
dcterms.accessRightsopen access
oaire.citation.endPage1140
oaire.citation.issue3
oaire.citation.startPage1103
oaire.citation.titleInternational Entrepreneurship and Management Journal
oaire.citation.volume18
oaire.licenseConditionhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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