Previous research in work and organisational studies has found that individuals may experience their work as a job, a career or a calling. That experience, in turn, has a significant influence on their performance. In the present study, we apply this framework to the field of entrepreneurship and examine if the experience of aspiring entrepreneurs as a job, a career or a calling impacts their ability to attract resources for a new venture by considering two different resource attraction strategies presented in the literature: network positioning and proactive search. The results show that seeing entrepreneurship as a job has a negative impact on both network positioning and proactive search strategies. Experiencing entrepreneurship as a calling, however, has a positive impact on proactive search strategy. Perceiving entrepreneurship as a career is not related to resource attraction strategies. These findings illustrate that the way aspiring entrepreneurs experience their role as entrepreneurs affects their efforts as well as others’ confidence in terms of attracting resources for their new ventures. Theoretical and practical implications are addressed at the end of this work.

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企业家精神的呼唤：有抱负的企业家的初步研究

先前在工作和组织研究中的研究发现，个人可能会在工作，职业或求职经历中经历工作。反过来，这种经验会对他们的表现产生重大影响。在本研究中，我们将此框架应用于企业家精神领域，并通过考虑以下两种不同的资源吸引策略，研究有抱负的企业家作为工作，职业或求职经历的经验是否会影响他们为新企业吸引资源的能力。文献：网络定位和主动搜索。结果表明，将企业家精神视为工作对网络定位和主动搜索策略都具有负面影响。然而，体验企业家精神对主动搜索策略有积极的影响。将企业家精神视为职业与资源吸引策略无关。这些发现表明，有抱负的企业家体验自己作为企业家的角色的方式会影响他们的努力以及他人在为新企业吸引资源方面的信心。理论和实践意义将在本工作的结尾处讨论。