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Work values as predictors of entrepreneurial career intentions

Year: 2013
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Purpose Work values are an important characteristic to understand gender differences in career intentions, but how gender affects the relationship between values and career intentions is not well established. The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether gender moderates the effects of work values on level and change of entrepreneurial intentions (EI). Design/methodology/approach In total, 218 German university students were sampled regarding work values and with EI assessed three times over the course of 12 months. Data were analysed with latent growth modelling. Findings Self‐enhancement and openness to change values predicted higher levels and conservation values lower levels of EI. Gender moderated the effects of enhancement and conservation values on change in EI. Research limitations/implications The authors relied on self‐reported measures and the sample was restricted to university students. Future research needs to verify to what extent these results generalize to other samples and different career fields, such as science or nursing. Practical implications The results imply that men and women are interested in an entrepreneurial career based on the same work values but that values have different effects for men and women regarding individual changes in EI. The results suggest that the prototypical work values of a career domain seem important regarding increasing the career intent for the gender that is underrepresented in that domain. Originality/value The results enhance understanding of how gender affects the relation of work values and a specific career intention, such as entrepreneurship.
DOI: 10.1108/cdi-04-2012-0047
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2028047408
FWCI: 10.13
Cites: 58
Cited by: 80
Related to: 10