Advice seeking and mentors’ influence on entrepreneurs’ role identity and business-model change
研究创业者寻求建议的行为与导师影响如何触发角色身份和商业模式变化，发现四种建议寻求类型，其中经验型和情感心理型与导师影响相关。
This study explored the interrelations between advice seeking and the role of mentors in triggering entrepreneurial role identity and business-model change.Entrepreneurs' advice-seeking antecedents were found to be associated with entrepreneurmentor fit at the individual and organizational levels.Entrepreneurs manifested four different types of adviceseeking behaviors, termed emotional-and-psychological-based advice seeking, experience-based advice seeking, reflexivebased advice seeking and self-sufficient advice seeking.Experience-based advice seeking and emotional-andpsychological-based advice seeking were associated with mentors' influence on entrepreneurial role identity and businessmodel change.Entrepreneurs characterized by emotiona-andpsychological-based advice seeking aimed to make moreindependent decisions.Reflexive-based advice seeking was associated with mentors' triggering changes in the business model; whereas, entrepreneurs classified as self-sufficient sought out little mentorship.