Tacking into the Wind: How Women Entrepreneurs can Sail Through Family-to-Work Conflict to Ensure their Firms’ Entrepreneurial Orientation

IF 2 4区管理学 Q3 BUSINESS

Entrepreneurship Research Journal Pub Date : 2021-11-18 DOI:10.1515/erj-2021-0047

D. De Clercq, Eugene Kaciak, N. Thongpapanl

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Abstract

Abstract When women entrepreneurs experience family-to-work conflict, it may discourage them from adopting an entrepreneurial orientation, an effect mediated by work-related emotional exhaustion and moderated by both family-to-work enrichment and family support at home. According to survey data collected among women entrepreneurs in Ghana, negative interferences of family with work can steer women entrepreneurs away from adopting an entrepreneurial orientation for their company, largely because they feel emotionally overextended by their work. However, enrichment of their work, attained through family involvement, can buffer this detrimental effect. The buffering role of family-to-work enrichment in turn is particularly effective when women entrepreneurs receive help on household tasks from other family members. This study accordingly identifies a key mechanism by which family-induced work strain can hamper bold strategic actions by women entrepreneurs—because they feel emotionally drained at work—and details when this mechanism is less prominent, namely, in the presence of relevant family resources.

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迎风而行:女企业家如何克服家庭与工作的冲突，确保公司的创业方向

当女性企业家经历家庭-工作冲突时，可能会阻碍她们采取创业导向，这种影响由工作相关的情绪耗竭介导，并受到家庭-工作充实和家庭家庭支持的调节。根据在加纳女企业家中收集的调查数据，家庭对工作的负面干扰可能会使女企业家不愿意为自己的公司采取创业导向，这主要是因为她们觉得自己的工作在情感上超出了她们的范围。然而，通过家庭参与而丰富他们的工作，可以缓冲这种有害的影响。反过来，当女企业家在家务上得到其他家庭成员的帮助时，从家庭到工作的丰富的缓冲作用特别有效。因此，本研究确定了家庭导致的工作压力会阻碍女企业家大胆的战略行动的关键机制——因为她们在工作中感到情绪枯竭——并详细说明了这一机制不太突出的情况，即在相关家庭资源存在的情况下。

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Entrepreneurship Research Journal BUSINESS-

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4.50

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期刊介绍： Entrepreneurship Research Journal (ERJ) was launched with an Inaugural Issue in 2011. Professor Ramona Zachary at Baruch College and Professor Chandra Mishra at Florida Atlantic University introduce a new forum for scholarly discussion on entrepreneurs and their activities, contexts, processes, strategies, and outcomes. Positioned as the premier new research journal within the field of entrepreneurship, ERJ seeks to encourage a scholarly exchange between researchers from any field of study who focus on entrepreneurs, and will include both theoretical and empirical articles, with priority being given to high quality theoretical and empirical papers that have managerial or public policy orientation as well as ramifications for entrepreneurship research overall. Topics: -Research Modeling, Design, and Methods: entrepreneurship theories and conceptualizations, entrepreneurship research methods. -The Individuals-Opportunities-Resources Nexus: nascent entrepreneurs, opportunity recognition, drivers of value creation, and emergence, innovation and technology entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial risk and reward, entrepreneurial cognition and behavior. -Inclusive of Near Environments: family entrepreneurship, networks, teams and alliances, venture capital and angel investor groups, entrepreneurial communities, hubs, clusters and public policy, social entrepreneurship. -Distinct Entrepreneurial Stage or Setting: entrepreneurial growth and strategy, boards, governance and leadership, corporate entrepreneurship, international and emerging market entrepreneurship.