TY - JOUR

T1 - Psychological training for entrepreneurs to take action

T2 - Contributing to poverty reduction in developing countries

AU - Frese, Michael

AU - Gielnik, Michael Marcus

AU - Mensmann, Mona

PY - 2016/6/1

Y1 - 2016/6/1

N2 - Entrepreneurship is one of the most effective means to alleviate poverty in developing countries. Effective entrepreneurship requires psychological approaches—in particular, active (i.e., agentic) approaches. We introduce an action-regulation training approach, focusing on self-regulation and active behavior in entrepreneurship as a bottom-up solution for poverty reduction. We present two different training interventions. The first focuses on enhancing personal initiative in entrepreneurs from developing countries. The second aims at boosting startup rates in these countries by enhancing participants’ entrepreneurial skills and motivation. We describe underlying theoretical assumptions, structures, and effects of both training interventions and discuss evaluation studies with randomized pretest-posttest control-group designs showing that action-regulation training is a successful means to promote entrepreneurship in developing countries.

AB - Entrepreneurship is one of the most effective means to alleviate poverty in developing countries. Effective entrepreneurship requires psychological approaches—in particular, active (i.e., agentic) approaches. We introduce an action-regulation training approach, focusing on self-regulation and active behavior in entrepreneurship as a bottom-up solution for poverty reduction. We present two different training interventions. The first focuses on enhancing personal initiative in entrepreneurs from developing countries. The second aims at boosting startup rates in these countries by enhancing participants’ entrepreneurial skills and motivation. We describe underlying theoretical assumptions, structures, and effects of both training interventions and discuss evaluation studies with randomized pretest-posttest control-group designs showing that action-regulation training is a successful means to promote entrepreneurship in developing countries.

KW - Business psychology

KW - action-regulation theory

KW - personal initiative

KW - training

KW - developing countries

KW - action-regulation theory

KW - personal initiative

KW - developing countries

KW - Entrepreneurship

KW - action-regulation theory

KW - personal initiative

KW - training

KW - developing countries

KW - entrepreneurship

KW - training

UR - http://cdp.sagepub.com/content/25/3.toc

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84973439907&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1177/0963721416636957

DO - 10.1177/0963721416636957

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 25

SP - 196

EP - 202

JO - Current Directions in Psychological Science

JF - Current Directions in Psychological Science

SN - 0963-7214

IS - 3

ER -