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Having Entrepreneurial Friends and Following Them? The Role of Friends’ Displayed Emotions in Students’ Career Choice Intentions

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  • Fei Zhu

    (Nottingham University Business School China, Ningbo, 315100, China)

  • Shea Xuejiao Fan

    (School of Management, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, 3000, Australia)

  • Li Zhao

    (School of Business Administration, Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance, Pudong New District, Shanghai, China)

Abstract

Emotions have a social effect in that individuals’ emotions, attitudes, decisions, and behavior are affected by their perceptions of others’ emotions through social interactions. We introduce the social influence of emotions perspective to the career intentions literature and demonstrate how entrepreneurial friends’ work-related emotions influence university students’ entrepreneurial career intentions. Using an experimental design (N=283), we reveal that entrepreneurial friends’ displayed positive emotions directly encourage students’ entrepreneurial career intentions, whereas negative emotions discourage students’ intentions indirectly by reducing the perceived desirability of being an entrepreneur. Our research contributes to the literature on career intentions, entrepreneurial intention, and emotions in the entrepreneurship context.

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  • Fei Zhu & Shea Xuejiao Fan & Li Zhao, 2019. "Having Entrepreneurial Friends and Following Them? The Role of Friends’ Displayed Emotions in Students’ Career Choice Intentions," Journal of Enterprising Culture (JEC), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 27(04), pages 445-470, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:jecxxx:v:27:y:2019:i:04:n:s021849581950016x
    DOI: 10.1142/S021849581950016X
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    1. Jessica Birkholz, 2022. "Persistence of Regional Entrepreneurship Patterns: Quantity and Quality of Regional Business Opportunity Perception," Bremen Papers on Economics & Innovation 2204, University of Bremen, Faculty of Business Studies and Economics.

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