| WHAT DETERMINES ENTREPRENEURIAL SUCCESS OF ACADEMICS? A MULTIPLE SOCIAL IDENTITY PERSPECTIVE |
Received:September 28, 2017 Revised:September 28, 2017 |
Key Words: Academic entrepreneurship; multiple professional identification; role integration; social identity theory |
| Author Name | Affiliation | | Bo Zou | Harbin Institute of Technology | | Feng Guo | Harbin Institute of Technology | | Lin Cui* | The Australian National University | | Simon Restubog | The Australian National University |
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Abstract: |
| 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 identification theory, this study examines the mediated relationship among entrepreneur identification of academics, 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. Based on the sample of 248 academic entrepreneurs in China, our empirical analyses support the hypothesized moderated mediation. Findings of this study offer important implications for individual academics and academic institutions to effectively promote academic entrepreneurship. |
