This study develops and tests a model of the transition from paid employment to entrepreneurship using a sample of 226 adults currently in paid employment. Building on a seminal but largely untested insight from Shapero (1975), we used theoretical logic from event system theory to propose that displacing work events moderate the effect of entrepreneurial identity aspirations, a possible-self role identity, on engagement in nascent entrepreneurial activities (discovery and exploitation behaviors). Results show that entrepreneurial identity aspirations were more strongly positively related to entrepreneurial discovery behaviors among employees who experienced a displacing work event in their current workplace; discovery behaviors in turn related to entrepreneurial exploitation behaviors. The moderation effect was significant for four of the six displacing events examined in this study. Our findings have implications for the literatures on entrepreneurial career transitions, entrepreneurial role identity, and event system theory and offer validity evidence for the nascent entrepreneurial behaviors scale. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

中文翻译：

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唤醒内心的企业家：企业家身份渴望和取代工作事件的作用。

本研究使用目前从事有偿就业的 226 名成年人的样本，开发并测试了从有偿就业到创业的转变模型。基于 Shapero (1975) 的开创性但大部分未经检验的见解，我们使用事件系统理论的理论逻辑提出，取代工作事件可以缓和企业家身份渴望（一种可能的自我角色身份）对参与新生创业活动的影响。发现和利用行为）。结果表明，在当前工作场所经历过离职事件的员工中，创业身份渴望与创业发现行为更强烈地正相关；发现行为反过来又与创业剥削行为相关。对于本研究中检查的六个位移事件中的四个，调节效应是显着的。我们的研究结果对创业职业转变、创业角色认同和事件系统理论的文献有影响，并为新生的创业行为量表提供了有效性证据。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2020 APA，保留所有权利）。