Abstract
This study addressed the underlying mechanisms through which future time perspective (FTP) motivates entrepreneurial career intention. By focusing on entrepreneurship as an important career decision for individual sustainable career development, we argued that the generic use of a learning orientation approach mediates the effect of the presence of an extended FTP on individual entrepreneurial career intention. We also posited that entrepreneurial passion for founding moderates the relationship between learning orientation and individual entrepreneurial career intention. Using a survey data of 416 students attending a Chinese public sector university, we found that FTP enhanced learning orientation, which, in turn, stimulated entrepreneurial career intention. Moreover, the positive relationship between learning orientation and entrepreneurial career intention became strong as entrepreneurial passion for founding increased. Results were discussed in terms of implications for theory and practice.
Highlights
Sustainable career development is crucial to personal survival and self-realization value [1,2,3,4]
By exploring the direct and indirect influences of future time-related cognitions on individual entrepreneurial career intention, we demonstrated the importance of nourishing future time perspective (FTP) among individuals as it can significantly boost their entrepreneurial ambitions
FTP had a positive effect on learning orientation (b = 0.41, p < 0.001), supporting Hypothesis 2 (H2)
Summary
Sustainable career development is crucial to personal survival and self-realization value [1,2,3,4]. Individuals have many opportunities to make career choices, they increasingly face the challenges and obstacles of career sustainability across their lifespan in a complex and uncertain world [2,5]. Entrepreneurial career decisions, for the formation of entrepreneurial career intention, are emerging and important issues in sustainable career development research and practice [2,3,7,8,9,10]. The subject of entrepreneurial career intention has recently attracted extensive attention from scholars [12,13,14,15], as such an intention is theorized as a critical step to the actual entrepreneurial startup behaviors and subsequent success in an established venture [16]. Scholars must shed light on the forming mechanism of entrepreneurial career intention in the entrepreneurial career and entrepreneurship research fields [17]
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