BEGINNING'S END: HOW FOUNDERS PSYCHOLOGICALLY DISENGAGE FROM THEIR ORGANIZATIONS

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Rouse, Elizabeth D.
• 署名单位: Boston University
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/amj.2013.1219
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: 1605-1629
• 关键词: ENTREPRENEURIAL TRANSITIONS; AFFECTIVE COMMITMENT; BUSINESS FAILURE; IDENTITY; identification; MODEL; serial; work; EXIT; performance

摘要

Exit is a critical part of the entrepreneurial process. At the same time, research indicates that founders are likely to form strong identity connections to the organizations they start. In turn, when founders exit their organizations, the process of psychological disengagement might destabilize their identities. Yet, limited research addresses how founders experience exit or how they manage their identities during this process. Through a qualitative, inductive study of founders of technology-based companies, I developed a theoretical model of founder psychological disengagement that delineates how founder work orientations relate to the disengagement paths that founders follow when leaving one organization and starting another. In elaborating on theory of psychological disengagement, this study has implications for understanding the psychology of founders, how founders exit and begin again, and psychological disengagement more broadly.