From academia to enterprise: how work value and organisational factors influence academic entrepreneurship

Abstract

Scholars in the social sciences have paid attention to the work value, but little is known about its significance from an entrepreneurship point of view. The purpose of this study is to look into how an organisational factor influences the relationship between academician work value and academic entrepreneurship engagement. This is a first attempt to investigate academician work values from higher learning institutions in developing nations, adding to the body of knowledge regarding the elements that impact academic entrepreneurship engagement. The selected higher learning institutions provided 381 of their academicians for the study, which employed a quantitative cross-sectional design. Structured questionnaires were used to gather data, and structural equation modelling was used to assess the results. The results show that, when organisational factors act as the moderator, work value in terms of terminal values increases its impact on academic entrepreneurship; on the contrary, organisational factors have no moderation effect with the instrumental value when influencing academic entrepreneurship. The study provided implications for higher learning institutions, academicians, and the government.