This paper explores the imprinting of entrepreneurs' motivations on the practices and processes of enterprises. We investigate the question in the context of creative industries (CIs) as an extreme case of entrepreneurial motivations (EMs) prevalence. We analyse the EM of 14 founders of design consultancies. Three EMs emerge: self‐fulfilment, freedom and financial motivation. The qualitative analysis reveals that the founders' EMs at the time of a venture's founding has a lasting impact on the characteristics of the venture (name, processes formalization, decision‐making processes, performance measures and growth strategies). Specifically, founders driven by self‐fulfilment tend to build ventures named after them. In these ventures, processes are informal, decision‐making is centralized, performance measures are based on personal satisfaction and recognition and enterprise growth is restrained. Founders who seek freedom tend to run enterprises with semiformal processes, semicentralized decision‐making, a client satisfaction focus, and slow growth strategies. In contrast, founders with financial motivations tend to create enterprises with formal processes, decentralized decision‐making, financial performance metrics and growth ambitions. By focusing on EM and adopting a holistic approach beyond some characteristics of the venture, we complement the imprinting literature.

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创始人的创业动机对企业实践和过程的烙印：创意产业的背景

本文探讨了企业家动机对企业实践和过程的影响。我们在创意产业（CIs）的背景下调查该问题，将其作为企业家动机（EMs）流行的极端情况。我们分析了14个设计咨询公司创始人的EM。出现了三个新兴市场：自我实现，自由和财务动机。定性分析表明，企业成立时的创始人EM对企业的特征（名称，流程形式化，决策过程，绩效指标和增长策略）具有持久的影响。具体来说，是由自我实现驱动的创始人倾向于建立以他们命名的企业。在这些企业中，流程是非正式的，决策是集中的，绩效衡量是基于个人满意度和认可度，并且企业发展受到限制。寻求自由的创始人倾向于以半正式流程，半集中决策，关注客户满意度和缓慢的增长战略来经营企业。相反，具有财务动机的创始人往往会创建具有正式流程，分散决策，财务绩效指标和增长抱负的企业。通过专注于EM并采用超出企业某些特征的整体方法，我们对印迹文献进行了补充。