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Small And Medium-sized Private Entrepreneurs Entrepreneurial Motivation And Its Influencing Factors

Posted on:2005-06-11Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z C HeFull Text:PDF
GTID:2206360152957247Subject:Management Science and Engineering
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This thesis concerned with the structure of entrepreneurial motivation and the factors influencing entrepreneurial motivation ?After that, it discussed the relationship between entrepreneurial motivation and performance. On the basis of recent research literature, the thesis firstly proposed a model of entrepreneurial motivation and then analyzed the factors influencing entrepreneurial motivation in order to build up the model of relationship of entrepreneurial motivation and performance of the company.There are two stages in this study. At the first stage, an interview and case study were conducted to analyze the relationship between entrepreneurial motivation and the influencing factors and then to test the design of the study. In the second stage, 129 entrepreneurs were surveyed through questionnaires. The conclusions indicated that:(1) Entrepreneurial motivation can be measured in three key dimensions: achievement orientation , control orientation , security orientation Then the performance was affected directly by Entrepreneurial motivation(2) Entrepreneurial motivation was affected by characteristics and attributes of entrepreneurs and achievement need will be the most important factors among them But the effect of characteristics of entrepreneurs will be weaker than business environment and intrapreneurial competency(3) Entrepreneurial motivation was affected by intrapreneurial competency.. The higher the level of entrepreneurial content, the stronger of the achievement orientation of the entrepreneur would be(4) Entrepreneurial motivation was affected by business environmentsuch as the development of the industry, government policy and social contrast the entrepreneur makes , Among them, the development of the industry will be most important (5) At different development stages of the company, the entrepreneurial motivation was different Especially, when the company was newly start梪p, the entrepreneur would be mostly security oriented In contrast, the entrepreneur would be mostly achievement or control oriented when the company were in other stages,,(6) The development stages of the company has significant interaction impact between intrapreneurial competency and entrepreneurial motivation.
Keywords/Search Tags:Entrepreneurial motivation, Characteristics, Business environment, Organizational entrepreneurial competency
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