A Self-Regulatory Model of Entrepreneurs’ Variability in Decision-Making and Taking Charge Behavior
研究了创业者在分析式与直觉式决策之间切换的变异性如何通过降低自我效能感和乐观情绪，进而减少其主动担责行为，且这种关系受防御型调节焦点驱动。
I introduce variability in decision-making (VDM) as a construct that covers the extent to which entrepreneurs switch between analytic and intuitive decision-making over time. Drawing from self-regulation theories, I developed a model that explains how VDM is negatively related to taking charge behavior (TCB) and is driven by entrepreneurs’ regulatory focus strategies. This model is tested using a dataset covering 438 daily observations from 53 entrepreneurs and matched data from non-entrepreneurs. The results show that VDM leads to decreased TCB via decreased self-efficacy and optimism. Prevention but not promotion focus predicted VDM. These associations emerged for entrepreneurs but not for non-entrepreneurs.