Role, Values, Person and Context: A Story of ‘Bent’repreneurship

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Richard J. Arend
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We prove a fundamental attribution error connecting rule-breaking behavior to entrepreneurs. We do so in the research context of the US, where we recently sampled from medium-sized venture entrepreneurs and their corporate executive peers (as an applicable reference point). We chose the US not only for its high entrepreneurial activity, but also because of the not uncommon relationship between business leaders and religion. By including various measures of religiosity in the study, we could control for factors that would likely influence rule-breaking, which standard models like the fraud triangle do not explicitly consider. In fact, we add contingency theory ideas to the fraud triangle to determine whether it is the decision conditions that determine rule-breaking rather than the role of the person (i.e., as an entrepreneur). We find that once demographic, religious, firm and industry contingencies are controlled for, any statistically significant influence of being an entrepreneur (relative to being a corporate executive with similar opportunity, motivation, capability and rationalization) disappears when it comes to self-admitted value-bending behaviors at work. Our contribution consists of a novel analysis, results and discussion of the ‘bent’repreneur—adding to conversations on the under-researched nexus of entrepreneurship with religiosity and ethical decision-making.
角色、价值观、个人和背景:弯曲 "创业的故事
我们证明了将破坏规则行为与企业家联系在一起的基本归因错误。我们的研究背景是美国,我们最近在美国对中型风险企业家及其企业高管同行(作为适用的参照点)进行了抽样调查。我们选择美国,不仅因为其创业活动频繁,还因为商业领袖与宗教之间的关系并不罕见。通过在研究中纳入各种宗教信仰的衡量标准,我们可以控制那些可能影响违规行为的因素,而欺诈三角等标准模型并没有明确考虑这些因素。事实上,我们在欺诈三角模型中加入了权变理论思想,以确定是否是决策条件而非个人角色(即作为企业家)决定了规则的破坏。我们发现,一旦控制了人口统计学、宗教、公司和行业的偶然因素,在工作中自我承认的价值扭曲行为方面,企业家身份(相对于具有类似机会、动机、能力和合理性的公司高管)的任何统计意义上的显著影响都消失了。我们的贡献在于对 "弯曲 "企业家进行了新颖的分析、结果和讨论,为研究不足的企业家精神与宗教信仰和道德决策之间的关系的对话增添了新的内容。
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