Startup success from the founder's perspective

Q2 Social Sciences

Society and Economy Pub Date : 2024-02-07 DOI:10.1556/204.2023.00029

Enikő Anna Virágh, Gigi Tímár, Krisztina Pecze

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Abstract

Subjective entrepreneurial success has emerged as an area of academic interest. However, no research study has yet been conducted on startup founders as a specific group of entrepreneurs. Although ‘success’ has been prominently covered in existing startup literature, studies predominantly focus on the possible reasons behind startup success, measuring it solely in economic terms. Drawing upon the qualitative analysis of 22 in-depth interviews with Hungarian startup founders, this paper aims to explore the complex structure of subjective startup success from the founder's perspective along with its gendered patterns. The five dimensions of subjective startup success emerging from the data are similar to those of subjective entrepreneurial success: firm performance, team, personal fulfilment, community impact and personal financial reward. Nevertheless, results reveal that there exists considerable difference between the substance of firm performance dimension in the subjective entrepreneurial success model and in our subjective startup success model. Further, it is found that the interplay among indicators of success could range from synergies to tensions. Finally, personal fulfilment is found to be the only dimension that reflects a marked gender difference in the sample.

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从创始人的角度看初创企业的成功

主观创业成功已成为学术界关注的一个领域。然而，目前还没有针对初创企业创始人这一特定创业者群体的研究。虽然 "成功 "在现有的初创企业文献中占有显著位置，但研究主要集中于初创企业成功背后的可能原因，并仅从经济角度进行衡量。本文通过对 22 位匈牙利初创企业创始人的深入访谈进行定性分析，旨在从创始人的角度探讨初创企业主观成功的复杂结构及其性别模式。从数据中得出的初创企业主观成功的五个维度与主观创业成功的维度相似：公司业绩、团队、个人成就感、社区影响和个人经济回报。然而，研究结果表明，主观创业成功模型与我们的主观创业成功模型中企业绩效维度的实质内容存在很大差异。此外，研究还发现，成功指标之间的相互作用既有协同作用，也有紧张关系。最后，在样本中，个人成就感是唯一反映出明显性别差异的维度。

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Society and Economy Social Sciences-Sociology and Political Science

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1.50

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28 weeks

期刊介绍： The double-blind peer-reviewed journal publishes original research articles and book reviews in the fields of economics, social sciences, and business studies, which address social and economic issues in Central and Eastern Europe or have relevance for social and economic development in this region. While it welcomes articles from the international academic community, Society and Economy seeks in particular to provide an international forum for scholars working in the research traditions of this region. The journal welcomes submissions of high-quality and multi-disciplinary articles that address social, demographic, political, economic and industrial trends and challenges. Society and Economy is a gold open access journal since 2019 but authors are not requested to pay an article processing fee.