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科学学研究 ›› 2025, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (7): 1485-1494.

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创业呼唤对创业企业成长的影响研究

陈煊,叶竹馨   

  1. 华中科技大学管理学院
  • 收稿日期:2024-05-29 修回日期:2024-08-05 出版日期:2025-07-15 发布日期:2025-07-15
  • 通讯作者: 叶竹馨
  • 基金资助:
    国家自然科学基金资助项目;国家自然科学基金资助项目;国家自然科学基金资助项目

The Influence of Entrepreneurial Calling on the Growth of Entrepreneurial Enterprises

  • Received:2024-05-29 Revised:2024-08-05 Online:2025-07-15 Published:2025-07-15
  • Contact: ye zhuxin

摘要: 创业呼唤作为创业者感受到的来自创业领域的强烈召唤,是驱动创业者发自内心认同创业,并以此实现人生目的和意义的重要工作价值取向。然而,现有研究缺乏对创业呼唤如何影响创业行为和创业结果的探讨。本文使用316份创业者问卷调查数据,基于生涯建构理论和内隐理论,分析创业呼唤对创业企业成长的影响机制。研究发现:创业呼唤不仅能够推动创业企业成长,而且通过创业坚持推动创业企业成长;在创业者更具有成长型思维时,创业呼唤更有助于促进创业企业成长。进一步分析发现,机会型创业者、连续创业者的创业呼唤对创业企业成长的促进作用更强,但随着企业年龄增加,创业呼唤对创业企业成长的积极影响减弱。研究结论丰富了微观视角下创业企业成长的形成机制及其边界条件,从创业行为视角揭示创业呼唤对创业结果的影响机制,拓展创业情境下生涯建构理论和内隐理论的讨论范围。

Abstract: Entrepreneurial calling, as entrepreneurs feel the strong summon from the entrepreneurial field, is an important work value orientation that drives entrepreneurs to identify with entrepreneurship from the heart, and achieve the purpose and meaning of life. Research in the field of management and organization often calls for an emphasis on calling as a work orientation, analyzing its positive effects on individual behavior, job performance, social identity, etc. The calling for research in the field of entrepreneurship is still in its infancy. Researchers have attempted to combine the calling concepts from the field of management and organization, starting from the intrinsic motivations and psychological context of entrepreneurs, to explore the mechanisms and boundary conditions of the calling driving entrepreneurial efforts, making useful attempts to expand the special application of the calling in the field of entrepreneurship. However, we still know a little about what the entrepreneurial results will the entrepreneurial calling bring, from the perspective of entrepreneurial behavior to analyze the mechanism of entrepreneurial calling on the growth of entrepreneurial enterprises, so as to enrich and deepen the latest research results of entrepreneurial calling. Based on the Career Construction Theory and Implicit Theories, we take 316 questionnaires of entrepreneurs as samples, combine with entrepreneurial persistence to analyze the mechanism of the impact of entrepreneurial calling on the growth of entrepreneurial enterprises, and test the moderating effect of growth mindset on the relationship. We found that the entrepreneurial calling not only promotes the growth of entrepreneurial enterprises, but also promotes the growth of entrepreneurial enterprises through entrepreneurial persistence. When entrepreneurs have more growth mindset, the entrepreneurial calling is more conducive to the growth of entrepreneurial enterprises. The results are still robust by changing the sample size and alternative explanations of variables. Further analysis shows that the entrepreneurial calling of opportunistic entrepreneurs and serial entrepreneurs has a stronger promoting effect on the growth of entrepreneurial enterprises, but with the increase of enterprise age, the positive impact of entrepreneurial calling on the growth of entrepreneurial enterprises is weakened. We deepen the existing research from the following aspects: Firstly, from the perspective of entrepreneurial persistence and growth mindset, analyze the impact mechanism and boundary conditions of entrepreneurial calling on the growth of entrepreneurial enterprises, and broaden the micro-perspective of entrepreneurial growth from the perspective of entrepreneurial psychology and entrepreneurial behavior. Secondly, deepen the understanding of the calling under the entrepreneurial context, explore the mechanism of the impact of the calling on entrepreneurial persistence and the growth of entrepreneurial enterprises in combination with the internal psychological context of entrepreneurs, and enrich the research literature on the results of the entrepreneurial calling. Thirdly, the Career Construction Theory in the field of management and organization is applied to explore the career construction law of entrepreneurs in the entrepreneurial context, and the regulating role of growth mindset is analyzed in combination with the Implicit Theories, and the application context and scope of these two theories are extended. Future study can adopt different methods, such as longitudinal tracking research design, to reveal the dynamic mechanism of entrepreneurial calling affecting the growth of entrepreneurial enterprises. In addition, more objective situational factors of entrepreneurial calling driving the growth of entrepreneurial enterprises are explored to increase the scope of application of research conclusions.