Yu Zhaoyuan, Lu Kangyin
Business School, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, Jilin, China.
Front Psychol. 2023 Feb 27;14:1073866. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1073866. eCollection 2023.
Although academic entrepreneurship has received considerable attention over the last decades, little attention has been devoted to discussing the formation process of academic entrepreneurial intention underlying the push-pull perspective. This study attempts to explore the mechanism of how academic entrepreneurial intention is shaped, with job-related negative elements as push factors, and entrepreneurship-related positive attractors as pull factors.
In this paper, regression analysis and Bootstrap were conducted using SPSS 26.0 and MPLUS 7.0, whose applicability has been widely demonstrated in research.
Findings were derived from 1042 academics from Chinese universities. Results showed that both push and pull factors do contribute to boosting academic entrepreneurial intention. Particularly, the entrepreneurship-related pull factors including entrepreneurial opportunity identification and expected entrepreneurial benefits play a dominant role in trigging academic intention to engaging entrepreneurship. Moreover, our findings further confirmed the moderating role of social network in the process of academics pushed by negative job-related factors to emerge entrepreneurial intention.
This study extends the research perspective on the factors influencing academic entrepreneurial intention by examines the impact of push and pull factors on academic entrepreneurial intention simultaneously. This deepens the formation mechanism of academic entrepreneurial intention. Besides, the current study identifies a new look at the role that social network plays in academic entrepreneurship.
尽管学术创业在过去几十年中受到了相当多的关注，但对于从推拉视角探讨学术创业意向形成过程的研究却很少。本研究试图探索学术创业意向是如何形成的机制，将与工作相关的负面因素作为推动因素，将与创业相关的积极吸引因素作为拉动因素。
本文使用SPSS 26.0和MPLUS 7.0进行回归分析和Bootstrap分析，其适用性在研究中已得到广泛证明。
研究结果来自中国大学的1042名学者。结果表明，推动因素和拉动因素都有助于提高学术创业意向。特别是，与创业相关的拉动因素，包括创业机会识别和预期创业收益，在激发学术创业意向方面发挥着主导作用。此外，我们的研究结果进一步证实了社会网络在学者因负面工作相关因素而产生创业意向过程中的调节作用。
本研究通过同时考察推动因素和拉动因素对学术创业意向的影响，扩展了影响学术创业意向因素的研究视角。这深化了学术创业意向的形成机制。此外，本研究对社会网络在学术创业中的作用有了新的认识。
