Universität zu Köln

Gänser-Stickler, Gertraud Maria ORCID: 0000-0003-0329-0122 (2022). Individual-Level Entrepreneurial Behaviors: Essays on Employees’ Entrepreneurial Behavior, Entrepreneurial Entry and Women’s Entrepreneurial Intentions. PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.

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Abstract

Entrepreneurship is frequently described as the pursuit and exploitation of entrepreneurial opportunities, but individual-level entrepreneurial behaviors can take on many forms. The present dissertation explores individual-level entrepreneurial behaviors both within companies and of independent entrepreneurs. Individual-level entrepreneurial behaviors are important for a country’s growth and development directly by creating new businesses and indirectly, as employees engaging in entrepreneurial behaviors can help their companies to gain a competitive edge over their competitors. However, many factors keep individuals from engaging in entrepreneurial behaviors and influence their entrepreneurial decision-making, such as uncertainty, stress and lack of confidence in their own abilities. In order to increase individual-level entrepreneurship, we need to understand what motivates individuals in different situations to engage in entrepreneurial behaviors and how various cognitive processes and determinants shape their decision-making and intention formation. The present dissertation thus explores three distinct research areas: (1) employees’ entrepreneurship within companies, (2) individuals starting their own companies while being employed and (3) the particularities of female entrepreneurship. In doing so, this dissertation contributes to a more nuanced understanding of cognitive processes in entrepreneurship in general, and more specifically, to research on antecedents of entrepreneurial behavior within organizations, to the understanding of the concept of hybrid entrepreneurship, and to female entrepreneurship research and how to close the gender gap in entrepreneurship.

Item Type:	Thesis (PhD thesis)
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Gänser-Stickler, Gertraud Maria UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-0329-0122 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-631911
Date:	2022
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Management, Economy and Social Sciences
Divisions:	Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences > Business Administration > Strategy & Leadership > School of Management, Economics and Social Sciences Endowed Chair for Interdisciplinary Mngt. Education
Subjects:	Management and auxiliary services
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language Entrepreneurial Behavior, Corporate Entrepreneurship, Construal Level Theory, Regulatory Focus Theory, Hybrid Entrepreneurship, Uncertainty, Real Options Theory,Female Entrepreneurship, Individual-level Resources, Gender Equality UNSPECIFIED
Date of oral exam:	23 August 2022
Referee:	Name Academic Title Schwens, Christian Prof. Dr. Mensmann, Mona Prof. Dr. Isidor, Rodrigo Prof. Dr.
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/63191