Are work stressors and emotional exhaustion driving exit intentions among business owners?
基于组织行为与人力资源管理理论，研究角色模糊和工作家庭冲突如何通过情绪耗竭影响企业主的退出意向，并在美国和澳大利亚的两项研究中验证了模型。
Entrepreneurial exit and exit intentions are emerging areas of research, yet psychological antecedents of such intentions are understudied. We build on organizational behavior and human resource management theories to explain the role of work stressors (role ambiguity and work–family conflict) as antecedents of business owners’ emotional exhaustion and subsequent exit intentions. We tested the model in two studies from the United States and Australia. The results were consistent in both studies such that role ambiguity and work–family conflict predicted emotional exhaustion, and emotional exhaustion was associated with exit intentions. Post hoc analysis also revealed that women experience a stronger detrimental effect of work–family conflict, influencing emotional exhaustion, and subsequently exit intentions.