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Dual Work Roles : The Joint Effect Of Hybrid Entrepreneurs’ Regulatory Focus And Wage Work To Entrepreneurial Work Enrichment On Entrepreneurial Performance, Eric Adom Asante

Lingnan Theses and Dissertations (MPhil & PhD)

Hybrid entrepreneurial is phenomenal but remains under-studied in the management literature. This paper investigated the joint influence of hybrid entrepreneurs’ trait regulatory focus and wage work to entrepreneurial work enrichment (WE enrichment) on their entrepreneurial engagement and the subsequent proficient, adaptive, and proactive performance in entrepreneurial work. I first interviewed 16 hybrid entrepreneurs to obtain the understanding of their reasons for being in hybrid entrepreneurship, their regulatory focus tendencies, and the resources they transfer from wage work to entrepreneurial work. To validate the measurement scales of promotion and prevention focus, I conducted a pilot study among 66 hybrid entrepreneurs. Then, …