dc.contributor.author | Kara, Aycan | |
dc.contributor.author | Petrescu, Maria | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-01-27T18:31:06Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-01-27T18:31:06Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Aycan Kara, Maria Petrescu, 'Self-Employment and its Relationship to Subjective Well-Being', Senate Hall, 2018, International Review of Entrepreneurship, 115-140 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2009-2822 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2262/104681 | |
dc.description.abstract | The subjective well-being of self-employed people has not received adequate attention. Our analysis focuses on how individuals' universal needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness affect the happiness of self-employed persons, including whether there are significant differences among solo self-employed and those with employees. We use Self-Determination Theory and Hofstede's culture theory to address this gap. We study the relationship between autonomy, competence, relatedness and subjective well-being of self-employed people as well as the moderating effects of national cultural dimensions. We examine these hypothesized relationships using Hierarchical Linear Modelling across 4,856 self-employed individuals in 27 countries. Our results indicate that autonomy, competence, and relatedness are positively associated with the subjective well-being of self-employed individuals. Individualism moderates the relationship between autonomy and subjective well-being negatively and Uncertainty Avoidance moderates the relationship between relatedness and subjective well-being negatively. The findings represent a step forward in entrepreneurship research by examining the well-being of self-employed individuals. The study also provides information policymakers can utilize to encourage entrepreneurship using well-being as a motivational tool. Nevertheless, entrepreneurs can use these findings in formulating their long-term plans and business structure, as well as in motivating their employees.
Keywords: self-employment, subjective well-being, Self-Determination Theory (STD), national culture, Hofstede | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Senate Hall | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | International Review of Entrepreneurship | en |
dc.relation.haspart | Vol. 16, Issue 1, 2018 | eng |
dc.rights | Y | |
dc.source | International Review of Entrepreneurship | |
dc.subject | self-employment|subjective well-being|Self-Determination Theory (SDT)|national culture|Hofstede | en |
dc.title | Self-Employment and its Relationship to Subjective Well-Being | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.status.refereed | Yes | |
dc.description.affiliation | Aycan Kara (Indiana University Southeast, School of Business, New Albany, USA) and Maria Petrescu (Nova Southeastern University, H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship, Florida, USA) | |
dc.publisher.place | Dublin | |
dc.rights.ecaccessrights | openAccess | |
dc.format.extentpagination | 115-140 | |