Peljko Žiga, Auer Antončič Jasna
KD Group d.d., SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Faculty of Management, University of Primorska, SI-6000 Koper, Slovenia.
Behav Sci (Basel). 2022 Oct 31;12(11):424. doi: 10.3390/bs12110424.
Researchers have studied entrepreneurial curiosity and innovativeness as determinants of entrepreneurial behavior but have not linked them with company growth in a model. The intention of this enquiry was to examine the associations between the entrepreneur's psychological constructs of entrepreneurial curiosity and innovativeness and business growth, as examined by the conceptualization and analysis of hypotheses. For this research, data were obtained via a survey questionnaire. The sample consisted of 851 entrepreneurs of companies in three European countries. Each company had 250 workers or fewer. This study contributes to the entrepreneurship knowledge base by presenting empirical testimony on the associations between entrepreneurial curiosity, entrepreneurial innovativeness, and firm growth, as well as presenting advanced cross-nationally analogous measurement instruments of entrepreneurial curiosity and innovativeness. The entrepreneur's curiosity is important for their innovativeness, and this innovativeness is essential for business growth.
研究人员已将创业好奇心和创新精神作为创业行为的决定因素进行了研究，但尚未在一个模型中将它们与公司成长联系起来。这项调查的目的是通过假设的概念化和分析，来检验创业者的创业好奇心和创新精神等心理结构与企业成长之间的关联。在本研究中，数据是通过调查问卷获得的。样本包括来自三个欧洲国家的851家公司的创业者。每家公司的员工人数为250人或更少。本研究通过提供关于创业好奇心、创业创新精神和企业成长之间关联的实证证据，以及提供先进的跨国可比的创业好奇心和创新精神测量工具，为创业知识库做出了贡献。创业者的好奇心对其创新精神很重要，而这种创新精神对企业成长至关重要。
