Beginning’s End: How Founders Psychologically Disengage From Their Organizations
研究创始人退出组织时的心理脱离过程，基于科技公司创始人的定性研究，提出理论模型解释工作导向如何影响脱离路径，对理解创始人心理和退出再创业有启示。
Exit is a critical part of the entrepreneurial process. At the same time, research indicates that founders are likely to form strong identity connections to the organizations they start. In turn, when founders exit their organizations, the process of psychological disengagement might destabilize their identities. Yet, limited research addresses how founders experience exit or how they manage their identities during this process. Through a qualitative, inductive study of founders of technology-based companies, I developed a theoretical model of founder psychological disengagement that delineates how founder work orientations relate to the disengagement paths that founders follow when leaving one organization and starting another. In elaborating on theory of psychological disengagement, this study has implications for understanding the psychology of founders, how founders exit and begin again, and psychological disengagement more broadly.