Satisfaction of entrepreneurs: A comparison between founders and family business successors
比较了家族企业创始人与继承者在工作满意度和决策自主权上的差异，发现继承者的满意度和自主权更低，且自主权完全中介了创业进入模式与满意度之间的关系。
Although a substantial body of literature compares the job satisfaction of employees to that of the self-employed, scholars rarely take into account the heterogeneity of the latter population. We compare the level and the drivers of job satisfaction of founders and successors in family businesses. Building on the notion of procedural utility, which entails the gratification that individuals experience in the process of performing a task, we find that job satisfaction and perceived discretion in decision making is lower for successors. We also find that perceived discretion fully mediates the relationship between mode of entry into entrepreneurship and job satisfaction.