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Streeb, Mirjam ; Baum, Matthias:
Attracted or repelled? Investigating job seekers' perceptions of obsessive entrepreneurs.
2024
Event: 27th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Entrepreneurship, Innovation and SMEs (G-Forum): Entrepreneurship and Transformation – Future Viability in Times of Fundamental Change
, 25.09.2024-27.09.2024
, Ingolstadt, Deutschland.
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Speech with paper
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Abstract in another language
This study investigates the impact of entrepreneurs' obsessive passion on potential job seekers, exploring whether it functions as an asset or a liability in startup recruitment. Drawing upon signaling theory and person–environment (PE) fit theory, we develop a contingent model that elucidates job seekers’ perceptions of “obsessive passion” as a recruitment signal taking their individual characteristics as boundary conditions for the interpretation of this signal into account. Our hypotheses were tested through a metric conjoint experiment involving 181 job seekers, yielding 2,896 decisions. The results indicate that the impact of an entrepreneur’s perceived obsessive passion on a venture’s attractiveness as a potential employer is contingent upon the characteristics of the job seeker. Specifically, signaling obsessive passion is only attractive to job seekers with highly proactive personalities and entrepreneurial self-efficacy; those who score low on these factors, as well as those who are risk-averse, tend to be repelled by such signals. These findings contribute to the literature on new venture recruitment by demonstrating how signals of obsessive passion aid in the self-selection of applicants, ultimately attracting employees well-suited for the entrepreneurial environment.
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| Item Type: | Conference item (Speech with paper) |
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| Refereed: | Yes |
| Keywords: | Recruitment; organizational attractiveness; new venture, obsessive passion; applicant attraction; human capital; metric conjoint; signaling theory; PE fit theory |
| Institutions of the University: | Faculties > Faculty of Law, Business and Economics > Department of Business Administration > Chair Business Administration XVI > Chair Business Administration XVI - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Matthias Baum |
| Result of work at the UBT: | Yes |
| DDC Subjects: | 300 Social sciences > 330 Economics |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Sep 2024 10:26 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Sep 2024 10:26 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/90493 |