TY - GEN A1 - Hermanns, Thomas A1 - Urbig, Diemo A1 - Block, Jörn A1 - Muehlfeld, Katrin T1 - Economic adjustment strategies of self-employed individuals during essential crises: The case of complementary paid jobs T2 - 39th EGOS Colloquium. Organizing for the good life: Between legacy and imagination, University of Cagliari July 6–8, 2023, Cagliari, Italy N2 - Research on entrepreneurs combining their own start-ups with wage work—often referred to as hybrid or part-time entrepreneurship—has primarily focused on employees (temporarily) retaining their wage jobs while (gradually) transitioning into entrepreneurship. During crises, however, entrepreneurs seeking to ensure survival of their existing ventures may strive to supplement self-employment with entry into wage jobs. Specifically, we hypothesize that such crisis-coping may facilitate venture survival through two separate pathways, an income-portfolio-driven one and one geared towards business model testing. The latter effect is contingent upon the degree of uncertainty regarding the business model change. We test these hypotheses empirically against the backdrop of the Covid-19 crisis using a sample of more than 10.000 German self-employed individuals. The results largely support our hypotheses and overall offer interesting implications for both future research as well as policymakers seeking to support small businesses during crisis periods. KW - Entrepreneurship KW - Crisis KW - Hybrid entrepreneurship KW - Business model change Y1 - 2023 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/379156381 UR - https://www.egos.org/jart/prj3/egos/main.jart?rel=de&reserve-mode=active&content-id=165850143499 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Muehlfeld, Katrin A1 - Urbig, Diemo A1 - Weitzel, Utz T1 - Entrepreneurs' exploratory perseverance in learning settings T2 - Entrepreneurship, Theory & Practice N2 - We introduce “exploratory perseverance” as a novel construct that captures perseverant behavior in settings in which several alternatives can be explored and evaluated. We suggest that entrepreneurs display exploratory perseverance reflected by a tendency to keep exploring broader sets of alternatives, to adopt a parallel rather than sequential approach to trial‐and‐error learning, and, after negative experiences with some alternatives, to be more inclined to give them a second chance. The results from an experimental study of 449 individuals participating in the Iowa Gambling Task indicate that more entrepreneurially experienced individuals display greater exploratory perseverance than those with little to no entrepreneurial experience. KW - Entrepreneurship KW - Learning KW - Exploration KW - Iowa Gambling Task Y1 - 2017 UR - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/etp.12224 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/etp.12224 SN - 1540-6520 SN - 0363-9428 VL - 41 IS - 4 SP - 533 EP - 565 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Gargalianou, Vasiliki A1 - Muehlfeld, Katrin A1 - Urbig, Diemo A1 - Witteloostuijn, Arjen van T1 - Foreign Language Anxiety in Professional Contexts : A Short Scale and Evidence of Personality and Gender Differences T2 - Schmalenbach Business Review N2 - While increasing globalization of the business world and rising numbers of people working in foreign language contexts are undoubted facts of modern work life, there are surprisingly few studies on individuals’ emotional reactions to working in a foreign language. Facilitating further research, we introduce a short scale for foreign language anxiety that is applicable in business and other professional contexts. Additionally, we investigate its relationship with gender and general personality traits. Our analysis of survey data from 320 adult bilinguals with Dutch as their mother tongue and English as foreign language demonstrates the reliability of the short scale. Furthermore, we find that females experience higher levels of FLA, but that this association is mediated by differences in personality. Our study contributes to the emerging literature on individuals’ (emotional) responses to using foreign languages in business contexts. Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s41464-016-0007-6 SN - 1439-2917 VL - 17 IS - 2 SP - 195 EP - 223 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Urbig, Diemo A1 - Terjesen, Siri A1 - Procher, Vivien D. A1 - Muehlfeld, Katrin A1 - Witteloostuijn, Arjen van T1 - Come on and Take a Free Ride: Contributing to Public Goods in Native and Foreign Language Settings T2 - Academy of Management Learning & Education N2 - Business schools around the world must prepare their students for two realities: operating in an English-speaking business world and working in teams. As yet, there is limited understanding of how operating in a native or a foreign language impacts students’ propensity to free ride in group settings. Building on general dual process theory of higher cognition and using a unique dataset of 276 Dutch business school students, we find that students are more inclined to free ride in a foreign language setting than in a native language setting. A student’s conscientiousness attenuates this relationship such that this effect is stronger for students who are less conscientious, and weaker and almost absent for those who are more conscientious. After a student decides not to free ride but to positively contribute to the group, the specific level of contribution is not affected by foreign language. We discuss implications for practice, policy, theory, and future research. Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5465/amle.2014.0338 SN - 1537-260X VL - 15 IS - 2 SP - 268 EP - 286 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Geenen, Noreen Y. R. A1 - Urbig, Diemo A1 - Muehlfeld, Katrin A1 - Witteloostuijn, Arjen van A1 - Gargalianou, Vasiliki T1 - BIS and BAS: Biobehaviorally rooted drivers of entrepreneurial intent T2 - Personality and Individual Differences N2 - We document the predictive relevance of the behavioral inhibition system (BIS) and the behavioral approach system (BAS) in a novel domain of societal importance: entrepreneurship. Based on structural equation models, Study 1 (N = 320) reveals that BAS reward responsiveness (BAS-RR) has a negative and BAS fun seeking (BAS-FS) has a positive association with entrepreneurial intent. Similar results emerge for Study 2 (N = 470): BAS-RR is negatively and BAS drive (BAS-D) is positively related to entrepreneurial intent. Additionally, Study 2 includes entrepreneurial experience, which is negatively related with BAS-RR and positively with BAS-D. We do not find any significant relationship between the BIS and entrepreneurial intent or experience. Our results support the multidimensionality of the BAS, with the subscales being differently associated with both entrepreneurial intent and experience. Finally, by simultaneously including intent and experience, Study 2 makes a methodological contribution related to the validity of student samples when analyzing entrepreneurial intent. Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2016.02.023 SN - 0191-8869 VL - 95 SP - 204 EP - 213 ER -