Despite the growing interest in academic entrepreneurs’ role conflict, we have not gained sufficient insights into its antecedents. Based on social learning theory, we examine how academic entrepreneurs’ prior experience—prior academic experience and prior entrepreneurial experience—influence their role conflict. Through multilevel linear regression and robustness tests using data from 394 academic entrepreneurs, we show that prior academic experience positively impacts role conflict, while prior entrepreneurial experience negatively impacts role conflict. Moreover, the negative effect of academic experience is weaker for academic entrepreneurs who have a longer length of prior entrepreneurial experience. Our study contributes to the literature on the antecedents of academic entrepreneurs’ role conflict and has important practical implications for academic entrepreneurial project cultivation and selection.

尽管人们对学术企业家的角色冲突越来越感兴趣，但我们还没有对其前因获得足够的洞察力。基于社会学习理论，我们研究了学术型企业家的先前经验——先前的学术经验和先前的创业经验——如何影响他们的角色冲突。通过使用 394 名学术企业家的数据进行的多级线性回归和稳健性测试，我们表明先前的学术经验对角色冲突产生积极影响，而先前的创业经验对角色冲突产生负面影响。此外，对于具有较长先前创业经验的学术型企业家，学术经验的负面影响较弱。