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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
business, management and accounting
Rule-breaking, crime, and entrepreneurship: A replication and extension study with 37-year longitudinal data
Journal of Vocational Behavior, Volume 83, No. 3, Year 2013
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Is there an intimate biographical relationship between entrepreneurship and antisocial tendencies? Drawing from Zhang and Arvey's retrospective study [Zhang, Z. & Arvey, R.D. (2009). Rule breaking in adolescence and entrepreneurial status: An empirical investigation. Journal of Business Venturing, 24(5), 436-447], which found a link between entrepreneurship status of male adults and their recalled early antisocial rule-breaking behavior in adolescence, the present study utilized prospective longitudinal data from a Swedish cohort study to clarify the connection between antisocial rule-breaking, crime, and entrepreneurship by applying a developmental perspective. Regression results, which controlled for early socioeconomic background and intellectual competencies, indeed identified early antisocial rule-breaking behavior in adolescence as a valid positive predictor of a subsequent entrepreneurial career in adulthood in men (but not in women). In contrast, registered crime (teenage crime, adult crime, and prototypical trajectories of criminal behavior) as well as rule-breaking attitude in adolescence, as a more latent form of early antisocial tendencies, were relatively unimportant in the prediction of entrepreneurship in both genders. The results are discussed with a focus on rule-breaking and agency theories of entrepreneurship, youth theories, and the importance of looking at gender differences in entrepreneurial development. © 2013 Elsevier Inc.
Authors & Co-Authors
Obschonka, Martin
Germany, Jena
Friedrich-schiller-universität Jena
Andersson, Håkan
Sweden, Stockholm
Stockholms Universitet
Silbereisen, Rainer K.
Germany, Jena
Friedrich-schiller-universität Jena
Sverke, Magnus
Sweden, Stockholm
Stress Forsknings Institutet
South Africa, Potchefstroom
North-west University
Statistics
Citations: 71
Authors: 4
Affiliations: 4
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1016/j.jvb.2013.06.007
ISSN:
00018791
Study Design
Cohort Study
Study Approach
Quantitative
Participants Gender
Male
Female