Once an entrepreneur, always an entrepreneur? Entrepreneurial identity, job characteristics, and voluntary turnover of former entrepreneurs in paid employment

• Published in: Personnel psychology Vol. 75; no. 1; pp. 179 - 213
• Main Authors: Feng, Jie, Allen, David G., Seibert, Scott E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Durham Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.03.2022
• Subjects: Employment; entrepreneurial identity; Entrepreneurs; Entrepreneurship; former entrepreneurs in paid employment; job characteristics; longitudinal data; Survival analysis; voluntary turnover

We focus on former entrepreneurs’ employment in established firms. Understanding the retention of former entrepreneurs—those who were previously founders of business ventures—is important to firms hoping to reap the benefits of their entrepreneurial experience. We compare the duration of their reten...