Work motivation and entrepreneurial intentions

Since becoming an entrepreneur typically entails a change from employment to self-employment, and since entrepreneurship may involve harder work than being an employee, it is instructive to consider the nascent entrepreneur's preference to work more or less hard as a potential antecedent of the decision to become an entrepreneur. In this paper we examine worker types in the context of types of entrepreneurship, and suggest propositions for empirical testing concerning whether particular worker types are more or less likely to start their own business and whether they are more or less likely to start particular types of new ventures.