TY - JOUR

T1 - The translation of entrepreneurial intention into start-up behaviour

T2 - The moderating role of regional social capital

AU - Weiss, Jan

AU - Anisimova, Tatiana

AU - Shirokova, Galina

N1 - Weiss, J. The translation of entrepreneurial intention into start-up behavior : The moderating role of regional social capital / J. Weiss, T. Anisimova, G. Shirokova // International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurship . – 2019. - Volume N/A. – P. N/A. Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2019. Copyright: Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

PY - 2019/8

Y1 - 2019/8

N2 - This article examines the moderating role of regional social capital in the intention–behaviour link in entrepreneurship. We investigate to what extent the regional social capital context in which aspiring entrepreneurs are embedded strengthens or weakens the translation of individual entrepreneurial intentions into new venture creation activities. Our results suggest that the intention–behaviour link is weakened by cognitive regional social capital in the form of regional hierarchy values and strengthened by structural regional capital in the form of regional cultural diversity and regional breadth of associational activity, as well as by relational regional social capital in the form of high levels of regional generalised trust. Our findings suggest that to support new venture creation activity, there is a need to grow regional social capital via the enhancement of social trust, associational activities and regional cultural diversity – and at the same time decrease hierarchical social structures within regions.

AB - This article examines the moderating role of regional social capital in the intention–behaviour link in entrepreneurship. We investigate to what extent the regional social capital context in which aspiring entrepreneurs are embedded strengthens or weakens the translation of individual entrepreneurial intentions into new venture creation activities. Our results suggest that the intention–behaviour link is weakened by cognitive regional social capital in the form of regional hierarchy values and strengthened by structural regional capital in the form of regional cultural diversity and regional breadth of associational activity, as well as by relational regional social capital in the form of high levels of regional generalised trust. Our findings suggest that to support new venture creation activity, there is a need to grow regional social capital via the enhancement of social trust, associational activities and regional cultural diversity – and at the same time decrease hierarchical social structures within regions.

KW - SCOPUS

KW - contingency effects

KW - entrepreneurial behaviour

KW - entrepreneurial intention

KW - intention–behaviour link

KW - regional social capital

KW - social embeddedness

KW - theory of planned behavior

KW - SCOPUS

KW - LEGITIMACY

KW - EMBEDDEDNESS

KW - CONTEXTUALIZATION

KW - DETERMINANTS

KW - ECONOMIC-DEVELOPMENT

KW - CULTURAL-VALUES

KW - intention-behaviour link

KW - FAMILY

KW - PLANNED BEHAVIOR

KW - DIMENSIONS

KW - UNIVERSITY

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UR - http://www.mendeley.com/research/translation-entrepreneurial-intention-startup-behaviour-moderating-role-regional-social-capital

U2 - 10.1177/0266242619831170

DO - 10.1177/0266242619831170

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85062852982

VL - 37

SP - 473

EP - 501

JO - International Small Business Journal

JF - International Small Business Journal

SN - 0266-2426

IS - 5

ER -