From Student to Entrepreneur: How Mentorships and Affect Influence Student Venture Launch
基于社会认知理论和部分扎根理论，研究导师关系和学生创始人的情感状态如何影响其从学生到创业者的身份转变及创业进展，提出两阶段过程模型和命题。
Student entrepreneurs face a variety of challenges in building their ventures. In this process, the student founders experience profound changes to their identities as they transition from traditional students to student entrepreneurs. Drawing on the social cognitive theory of self-regulation and utilizing a partially grounded theory approach we develop a two-stage process model to elucidate how mentor relationship and student founders affective state impacts entrepreneurial identity and venture progress. Our findings indicate that effective mentoring and positive founder's affect enables students to transition to entrepreneurs. This allows them to assemble resources and take necessary action to move their venture forward. We develop propositions to guide future empirical research in this area.