Role of entrepreneurial task motivation in the growth of technologically innovative firms

Article Abstract:

The Miner Sentence Completion Scale-Form T and an innovative technology survey were administered to applicants for development grants under the National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research Program. Data was obtained from 118 entrepreneurs who had founded their firms and from a comparison group of 41 manager/scientists who had submitted applications but were not founders. Measures of firm growth were developed from the innovative technology survey to serve as dependent variables. The MSCS-T has been developed to measure the motivational variables of a task theory that closely parallels achievement motivation theory. Task motivation exhibited a substantial relationship with the indexes of firm growth; it also differentiated between entrepreneurs and nonentrepreneurs. Thus, this article presents a new research direction that differs substantially from previous efforts to use the hierarchic theory of managerial motivation and the MSCS-Form H to study the motivation of entrepreneurs. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Business, Innovations, Leadership, Entrepreneurship

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Psychological and behavioral consequences of job loss: a covariance structure analysis using Weiner's (1985) attribution model

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B. Weiner's (1985) attribution model of achievement motivation and emotion was used as theoretical foundation to examine the mediating processes between involuntary job loss and employment status. Seventy-nine manufacturing employees were surveyed 1 month prior to permanent displacement, and finding another job was assessed 18 months later. Covariance structure analysis was used to evaluate goodness of fit and to compare the model to alternative measurement and structural representations. Discriminant validity analyses indicated that the causal dimensions underlying the model were not independent. Model predictions were supported in that internal and stable attributions for job loss negatively influenced finding another job through expectations for reemployment. These predictions held up even after controlling for influential unmeasured variables. Practical and theoretical implications are discussed. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Psychological aspects, Unemployment, Employee dismissals, Employment terminations, Employment at will, Displaced workers

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Theory testing under adverse conditions: motivation to manage in the People's Republic of China

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Research in the United States based on the hierarchic role-motivation theory indicates that motivation to manage rises with job level and is higher in the for-profit sector. The present research was designed to investigate these relationships in a sample of 170 employed individuals in the People's Republic of China. A review of the literature suggested that the applicability of the hierarchic role-motivation theory in China is problematic. Nevertheless, the results indicate that motivation to manage rises with position level and is higher (though minimally) in the for-profit sector. The findings are interpreted in terms of their relevance for the convergence hypothesis. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

China, Analysis, Management, Corporations, Management research, Employee motivation, Motivation (Psychology), Corporations, Chinese

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