ABSTRACT Although a substantial body of literature compares the job satisfaction of employees to that of the self-employed, scholars rarely take into account the heterogeneity of the latter population. We compare the level and the drivers of job satisfaction of founders and successors in family businesses. Building on the notion of procedural utility, which entails the gratification that individuals experience in the process of performing a task, we find that job satisfaction and perceived discretion in decision making is lower for successors. We also find that perceived discretion fully mediates the relationship between mode of entry into entrepreneurship and job satisfaction.

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企业家的满意度：创始人与家族企业后继者的比较

摘要尽管大量文献将员工的工作满意度与自雇人士的工作满意度进行了比较，但学者们很少考虑后者的异质性。我们比较了家族企业创始人和继任者的工作满意度水平和驱动因素。基于过程效用的概念，即需要个人在执行任务的过程中感到满足的过程效用，我们发现，继任者的工作满意度和决策中的自觉判断力较低。我们还发现，自觉的自由裁量权充分调解了进入创业模式与工作满意度之间的关系。