TY - JOUR A1 - Bechthold, Laura A1 - Rosendahl Huber, Laura A1 - Eddleston, Kimberly A. T1 - Debiasing entrepreneurial careers: A field experiment on female role model effects on entrepreneurial self-efficacy and early-stage career choices JF - Journal of Business Venturing N2 - Women remain underrepresented not only as founders but also as employees – or “joiners” – in young and small firms, limiting their exposure to entrepreneurial environments that often serve as critical pathways to venture creation. To address this gap, we investigate whether introducing female entrepreneur role models in educational settings can shape young women's entrepreneurial self-efficacy and early career choices. Drawing on role congruity theory and social cognitive career theory (SCCT), we conducted a field experiment involving over 430 university students and 98 early-stage entrepreneurs. Using a pre-test/post-test design and longitudinal tracking of early career choices, we explore the causal effects of exogenously assigned female role models on students' decisions to join a young or small firm. We find that exposure to social interactions with female entrepreneurs significantly boosts female students' entrepreneurial self-efficacy. More importantly, women who were paired with a female entrepreneur were over 10% more likely to join a young firm after graduation compared to those assigned to a male entrepreneur. Mediation analysis confirms that entrepreneurial self-efficacy is a key mechanism linking exposure to same-sex role models with women's decision to join a young firm. These findings highlight the potential of targeted role model interventions to reduce gender disparities in entrepreneurial entry pathways and expand the diversity of entrepreneurial ecosystems. UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2026.106582 Y1 - 2026 UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2026.106582 UR - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:573-66745 SN - 1873-2003 SN - 0883-9026 VL - 41 IS - 3 PB - Elsevier CY - New York ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Krüger, Clemens A1 - Bechthold, Laura A1 - Prügl, Reinhard ED - Kraus, Sascha ED - Clauss, Thomas ED - Kallmuenzer, Andreas T1 - Serious games to study the management of paradoxes in family firms: Introducing a research agenda T2 - Research Handbook on Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Family Firms UR - https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800889248.00026 Y1 - 2023 UR - https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800889248.00026 SN - 978-1-80088-924-8 SP - 391 EP - 412 PB - Edward Elgar Publishing CY - Cheltenham ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bechthold, Laura T1 - Rendering new futures or enshrining pictures of the past? The double-edged sword of using AI-generated imagery for anticipation JF - Journal of Futures Studies Y1 - 2025 UR - https://jfsdigital.org/rendering-new-futures-or-enshrining-pictures-of-the-past-the-double-edged-sword-of-using-ai-generated-imagery-for-anticipation/ SN - 1027-6084 PB - Tamkang University CY - Taipei ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Bechthold, Laura ED - Wreschniok, Robert T1 - Über die Kraft des Zweifels und wahren Fortschritt BT - Wie sich die Generation Y mit Vordenkern aus der ganzen Welt auf die Suche nach einer erstrebenswerten Zukunft machte. T2 - Das große Buch der Strategie: Von der Reformation bis zur digitalen Transformation UR - https://doi.org/10.15358/9783800671984-136 Y1 - 2024 UR - https://doi.org/10.15358/9783800671984-136 SN - 978-3-8006-7198-4 SN - 978-3-8006-7197-7 SP - 136 EP - 155 PB - Franz Vahlen CY - München ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schönhofer, Gerhard A1 - Komonen, Pauli A1 - Schwarz, Jan Oliver A1 - Bechthold, Laura T1 - Futures of Everyday Life: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Future Personas in Scenarios JF - Futures & Foresight Science N2 - Scenario reports, holding a long‐standing tradition in foresight and futures studies, act as an essential document for organizations to prepare for possible, plausible, and alternative futures. Focusing on descriptions and representations of everyday life, we examined 29 future persona narratives from six publications—covering a wide field from public to private sector—through qualitative content analysis. Our guiding question is: How can anthropological perspectives such as cultural relativism or postcolonial discourses contribute to an in‐depth, qualitative interpretation depictions of future everyday life? Acknowledging anthropology's colonial origins and its growing commitment to the interests of indigenous and other marginalized groups, we offer alternative readings of prominent scenario reports. Our findings suggest that scenario reports, in addition to anticipating possible futures, construct certain futures based on a systematic analysis of empirical data but also speculative interpretation. The results of these interpretative acts often appear elitist, stereotypical, and technocratic, often replicating dominant societal narratives rather than fostering substantive shifts in how the future is imagined. We therefore call for a more polyphonic representation of futures in scenario writing and foresight work that can produce more discontinuous and transformative images of the future. We understand polyphonic representations as coined by various independent, predominant as well as subaltern perspectives on the same issue at stake while being offered the same amount of space. Therefore, as we will indicate in our analysis, most of the reports referred to are rather monophonic and do not offer discuptive perspectives on the future of everyday life. As an avenue of methodological development, we propose a more nuanced and comprehensive perception of culture and social structures in scenario narrative writing. In addition, ethnographic methods could increase our understanding of how futures are collaboratively constructed and produced by different actors and their respective backgrounds and knowledge in scenario processes. UR - https://doi.org/10.1002/ffo2.70030 Y1 - 2026 UR - https://doi.org/10.1002/ffo2.70030 UR - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:573-66024 SN - 2573-5152 VL - 8 IS - 1 PB - Wiley CY - Hoboken ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Bechthold, Laura A1 - Wiesmüller, Sabine ED - Gondlach, Kai ED - Brinkmann, Birgit ED - Brinkmann, Mark ED - Plath, Julia T1 - Corporate Digital Responsibility im Zeitalter der künstlichen Intelligenz – Eine praktische Einführung T2 - Regenerative Zukünfte und künstliche Intelligenz: Band 3: PROFIT UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-46577-3_6 Y1 - 2026 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-46577-3_6 SN - 978-3-658-46577-3 SP - 57 EP - 72 PB - Springer VS CY - Wiesbaden ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Bechthold, Laura ED - Gondlach, Kai ED - Brinkmann, Birgit ED - Brinkmann, Mark ED - Plath, Julia T1 - Mein algorithmischer Kollege BT - Drei Erzählungen zu Mensch und Maschine als kollegiale Einheit in der Datenökonomie T2 - Regenerative Zukünfte und künstliche Intelligenz: Band 2: PEOPLE UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-44852-3_25 Y1 - 2024 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-44852-3_25 SN - 978-3-658-44852-3 SP - 359 EP - 368 PB - Springer VS CY - Wiesbaden ER -