Psychological training for entrepreneurs to take action: Contributing to poverty reduction in developing countries
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In: Current Directions in Psychological Science, Vol. 25, No. 3, 01.06.2016, p. 196-202.
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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 -