From Student to Entrepreneur: How Mentorships and Affect Influence Student Venture Launch

Student entrepreneurs face a variety of challenges in building their ventures. In this process, the student founders experience profound changes to their identities as they transition from traditional students to student entrepreneurs. Drawing on the social cognitive theory of self-regulation and ut...

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Published in:Journal of small business management 2018-01, Vol.56 (1), p.76-102
Main Authors: Ahsan, Mujtaba, Zheng, Congcong, Denoble, Alex, Musteen, Martina
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
College students
Emotions
Entrepreneurs
Founders
Grounded theory
Identity
Mentoring
Mentors
Positive emotions
Self regulation
Social cognitive theory
Students
Ventures
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Summary:Student entrepreneurs face a variety of challenges in building their ventures. In this process, the student founders experience profound changes to their identities as they transition from traditional students to student entrepreneurs. Drawing on the social cognitive theory of self-regulation and utilizing a partially grounded theory approach we develop a two-stage process model to elucidate how mentor relationship and student founders affective state impacts entrepreneurial identity and venture progress. Our findings indicate that effective mentoring and positive founder's affect enables students to transition to entrepreneurs. This allows them to assemble resources and take necessary action to move their venture forward. We develop propositions to guide future empirical research in this area.
ISSN:0047-2778
1540-627X
DOI:10.1111/jsbm.12362