From committed employees to rebels: the role of prosocial rule-breaking, age, and entrepreneurial self-efficacy
研究员工亲社会违规行为如何影响其创业意愿，基于中国两批样本的时滞数据发现，情感承诺通过亲社会违规间接促进创业意愿，且该效应受年龄和创业自我效能共同调节。
Exploring the critical but largely overlooked rule-breaking nature of entrepreneurship, we study how a specific form of rule-breaking—prosocial rule-breaking (PSRB), can impact people’s entrepreneurial career intentions. Based on the virtue-based model of entrepreneurial rule-breaking, stewardship theory, and the expectancy framework, we expect that employees’ affective organizational commitment will lead to employees’ PSRB, which, under some conditions, is related to their tendency to quit and start new businesses. Our moderated mediation analyses on time-lagged data from two samples in China support an indirect relationship between affective organizational commitment and entrepreneurial intentions mediated by PSRB and moderated by age and entrepreneurial self-efficacy simultaneously. We discuss theoretical and practical implications.