Date of Award
1-1-2023
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Ph.D. in Business Administration
First Advisor
Paul D. Johnson
Second Advisor
Charles C. Dibrell
Third Advisor
Walter D. Davis
School
University of Mississippi
Relational Format
dissertation/thesis
Abstract
The focal topics of this dissertation are subjective entrepreneurial success (SES) and grief. Over the past three decades, the budding SES literature has seen accelerating growth since its conceptual inception in 1987, with 2016 marking a key event in the literature – the formal naming and definition of the SES construct. Research on the SES construct is of interest to scholars because it complements the objective economic conceptualizations of success often seen in the entrepreneurship literature, highlighting the idiosyncratic ways that entrepreneurs conceptualize and evaluate their success.
To contribute to the SES literature, Essay One of my three-essay dissertation, I systematically review the SES literature. Second, I analyze the current state of the SES literature, showing what work scholars have done to examine SES and what journals have published it. Finally, I review the future directions that scholars have proposed in SES works, I highlight avenues for fruitful research.
In Essay Two, I develop a set of three entrepreneurial striving types based on unique combinations of entrepreneurs’ personal values and the subjective success criteria that represent. I examine the potential for conflict and compatibility between these values and their representative criteria, and the potential effects on entrepreneurs’ motivation, well-being, and success. In Essay Three, I examined entrepreneurs’ grief following business failure and how this affects their intentions to create new businesses, and the effect that entrepreneurial identity and resilience may have on these relationships.
Recommended Citation
Schaefer, Joseph Richard, "Entrepreneurs Want More Than Just Money: The Role of Subjective Entrepreneurial Success in Predicting Entrepreneur’s Grief Following Venture Failure" (2023). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 2577.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/2577