Abstract
Many studies about entrepreneurs have already been done from the perspecitve of the individual’s characteristics or background, but not many studies have studied it from the marital relationship perspective. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of marital relations strategies to business efficacy through mediation of spousal involvement and emotional social support. The subjects were 61 married young male entrepreneurs in Surabaya, Indonesia. Data analysis was tested by using structural equation modeling. Based on the structural equation modeling, only conflict management and advice strategy have a positive impact on the business efficacy of young male entrepreneurs through mediation of their spousal emotional involvement and social support. The other four strategies, namely assurance, openness, positivity and social network have no positive impact toward spousal involvement and spousal emotional social support. Therefore, the four strategies cannot have an effective influence on business efficacy if they are not preceded by a good conflict management strategy.
Highlights
Based on the structural equation modeling, only conflict management and advice strategy have a positive impact on the business efficacy of young male entrepreneurs through mediation of their spousal emotional involvement and social support
Spousal commitment can be reflected in spousal involvement and spousal emotional social support can have bad impact if the work family conflict stays unresolved
The husband who manage the conflict should reconcile the marriage relationship so that the spousal involvement and emotional social support would be more effective in increasing the efficacy of his business
Summary
According to the literature review by Hisrich [1], there are many researches on entrepreneurs based on demographic factors such as gender, education background, occupa-. Sanjaya tion of their parents, childhood family environment and work history. Results from another review indicate that there has been plenty of studies on entrepreneurs based on typologies of entrepreneurs, as well as the personality characteristics, motivation and culture of entrepreneurs [1] [2]. Studies of entrepreneurs from family business perspective have been discovered from family business stories or comparisons between generations in the family [3]. There have not been many research done on entrepreneurs based on their marital relationship
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