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Entrepreneurial Intention as Developmental Outcome
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Obschonka, Martin; Silbereisen, Rainer K.; Schmitt-Rodermund, Eva – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2010
What predicts adults' entrepreneurial intentions? Utilizing a cross-sectional sample of 496 German scientists, we investigated a path model for the effects of entrepreneurial personality (Big Five profile), control beliefs, and recalled early entrepreneurial competence in adolescence (early inventions, leadership, commercial activities) on two…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Intellectual Property, Personality, Entrepreneurship
Testing the Relationship between Three-Component Organizational/Occupational Commitment and Organizational/Occupational Turnover Intention Using a Non-Recursive Model
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Chang, Huo-Tsan; Chi, Nai-Wen; Miao, Min-Chih – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2007
This study explored the relationship between three-component organizational/occupational commitment and organizational/occupational turnover intention, and the reciprocal relationship between organizational and occupational turnover intention with a non-recursive model in collectivist cultural settings. We selected 177 nursing staffs out of 30…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intention, Nursing, Labor Turnover
A Comparison of Structural Models Representing Turnover Cognitions.
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Sager, Jeffrey K.; Griffeth, Rodger W.; Hom, Peter W. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1998
Structural equation modeling was used to test the discriminant validity of three cognitions--thinking of quitting, intent to search, and intent to leave--in 242 sales workers. Results demonstrating a different relationship among the three cognitions were used to revise a 1977 model. (SK)
Descriptors: Intention, Labor Turnover, Sales Occupations, Structural Equation Models
Side-Bet Theory and the Three-Component Model of Organizational Commitment
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Powell, Deborah M.; Meyer, John P. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2004
We tested Becker's (1960) side-bet conceptualization of commitment within the context of Meyer and Allen's (1991) three-component model of organizational commitment. Employees (N=202) from various organizations completed a survey including measures of (a) seven categories of side bets (b) affective, normative, and continuance commitment, and (c)…
Descriptors: Intention, Structural Equation Models, Employees, Organizations (Groups)