Both organizational and sociological approaches in entrepreneurship research highlight the importance of social context … in shaping individual preferences for entrepreneurship. An influential contextual factor that has not been studied in … entrepreneurship research is one's boss at work. Do entrepreneurial bosses contribute to their employees' decisions to become …

Entrepreneurship is an important economic source for any country. However, the share of female entrepreneurs is still … findings in the (women) entrepreneurship literature, we build on social learning theory (Bandura 1973) and argue that role … models’ promotion of entrepreneurship, we distinguish different types of role models. We hypothesize that different role …

employees towards becoming entrepreneurs: exit from the current firm and entry into entrepreneurship. In other words, we study … show that same-gender entrepreneurial bosses have a great impact on employees’ future entrepreneurship choices, especially … bosses on female employees’ transition into entrepreneurship. We show that the female boss effect is greater than other …