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T1 Online and Face-to-Face Social Networks and Dispositional Affectivity. How to Promote Entrepreneurial Intention in Higher Education Environments to Achieve Disruptive Innovations?
A1 Pérez Fernández, Héctor
A1 Martín Cruz, Teresa Natalia
A1 Delgado García, Juan Bautista
A1 Rodríguez Escudero, Ana Isabel
K1 Emprendedores - España
K1 Empresarios - Conducta
K1 Nuevas empresas
K1 Disruptive Innovation
K1 Entrepreneurial intention
K1 Social Networks
K1 Dispositional affectivity
K1 Digital transformation
K1 5311 Organización y Dirección de Empresas
AB Although entrepreneurial intention has been widely studied using cognitive models, we still lack entrepreneurial vocation and, therefore, lack disruptive innovations. Entrepreneurship scholars have some understanding of the reasons underlying this weakness, although there is much room for improvement in our learning concerning how to promote entrepreneurship among university students, especially in the transformed context of digital technologies. This paper focuses on the early stages of start-up, and in particular seeks to evaluate what role social and psychological factors play in the development of entrepreneurial intentions. Drawing on network theory, we consider the impact of social networks on entrepreneurial intention. Specifically, we analyze the influence of two types of social networks: face-to-face and online social networks, with the latter proving especially important in digital transformations. In addition, based on affective congruency theory, we relate affect with entrepreneurial intention. Particularly, we evaluate the influence of positive and negative dispositional affectivity on the formation of entrepreneurial intentions. Finally, since affect and emotions can also be related with social relationships, we analyze whether dispositional affectivities influence entrepreneurial intention through the mediation effect of social networks. Using structural equation modeling, we confirm the impact of both online and face-to-face social networks, as well as positive dispositional affectivity on entrepreneurial intention for 589 higher education students in Spain. However, negative dispositional affectivity is not seen to influence entrepreneurial intention. Furthermore, both face-to-face and online social networks are influenced by positive dispositional affectivity. Moreover, these two types of networks can even partially mediate the relationship between positive dispositional affectivity and entrepreneurial intention. Positive dispositional affectivity can thus influence entrepreneurial intention in two different ways: directly and indirectly through both face-to-face and online social networks. This study provides further insights and adds to the literature on affect, social networks, and entrepreneurial intention. From a broader perspective, we also contribute to the literature on disruptive innovations by explaining how the development of entrepreneurial intentions would have positive consequences for university students vis-à-vis achieving these disruptive innovations.
PB Frontiers
SN 1664-1078
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/64283
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/64283
LA spa
NO Pérez-Fernández, H., Martín-Cruz, N., Delgado-García, J. B., & Rodríguez-Escudero, A. I. (2020). Online and Face-to-Face Social Networks and Dispositional Affectivity. How to Promote Entrepreneurial Intention in Higher Education Environments to Achieve Disruptive Innovations?. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 588634.
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 12-sep-2024