Student entrepreneurial optimism and overconfidence across cultures
研究美国、西班牙和印度三国大学生对创业的乐观与过度自信程度,发现学生普遍乐观但不过度自信,且家庭支持对创业意向的调节作用因国家而异。
In this article, we examine whether university students are optimistic and/or overconfident about entrepreneurship, and the impact this has on their entrepreneurial intentions. We do so in three different nations corresponding to three different cultural clusters. Findings suggest that, students are optimistic—with American students being the most optimistic in comparison to their Spanish and Indian peers—but not overconfident. In addition, we find family support to moderate the relationship between entrepreneurial optimism, entrepreneurial overconfidence and entrepreneurial intentions. However, this moderating effect is not uniform across countries.