The idea is not enough: The role of self-efficacy in mediating the relationship between pull entrepreneurship and founder passion – a research note
基于103份问卷数据，研究发现自我效能完全中介了拉动型创业对创始人激情的影响，即创业机会的吸引力通过提升自我效能间接激发激情，而非直接作用。
This research note demonstrates that self-efficacy is important for understanding why an attractive idea may lead an entrepreneur to develop passion. Drawing upon a survey of 103 respondents, we find that self-efficacy mediates the influence of pull entrepreneurship on founder passion suggesting that being pulled toward opportunities to start a business is not directly required for entrepreneurial passion to develop. Instead, pull entrepreneurship increases self-efficacy and assists the individual to develop the skills typical of an entrepreneur. This instills individual self-efficacy beliefs, which in turn are prerequisites for passion to grow. As such, this research uncovers a skill-based explanation of how founder passion develops.