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Josh Wei-Jun Hsueh
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Prof. PhD
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Hsueh
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Josh Wei-Jun
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PublicationParental divorce in early life and entrepreneurial performance in adulthood( 2024)We examine how parental divorce in early life affects performance in entrepreneurship in adulthood. Drawing on life course theory and empirical analyses of US self-employment and childhood data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, we show that entrepreneurs’ experience of parental divorce in childhood benefits their entrepreneurial performance in adulthood through a gain in self-efficacy while simultaneously suppressing entrepreneurial performance through a shortfall in human capital. We also show that whether the performance advantages or disadvantages from parental divorce dominate depends on parental human capital. While parental divorce is associated with underperformance for entrepreneurs whose parents have high levels of human capital, it is positively related to entrepreneurial performance for those with low parental human capital. Our study contributes new theory and evidence on the intertemporal relationship between past family contexts and present entrepreneurial performance.Type: journal articleJournal: Journal of Business VenturingVolume: 39Issue: 3
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PublicationSocial Tie Heterogeneity and Firms’ Networking StrategyThe social ties of the owners, directors, and managers of firms have cross-level effects on firms’ network development. Firms can develop affiliations with a business group and connections across business groups. We expand the theoretical focus of Mani and Durand’s (2019) examination of the family and community ties of firm leaders and their impact on firms’ business group networks. We discuss the relational content heterogeneity of those ties and the associated logic in developing a firm’s networking strategy. Thus, we suggest alternative developmental processes for a firm’s network development strategy.Type: journal articleJournal: Entrepreneurship Theory and PracticeVolume: 43Issue: 2
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PublicationGovernance Structure and the Credibility Gap: Experimental Evidence on Family Businesses’ Sustainability ReportingThis paper examines the success of corporate communication in voluntary sustainability reporting. Existing studies have focused on the perspective of the communicators but lack an understanding of the perspective of information recipients to clearly evaluate this interactive communication process. This paper looks at the issue of a credibility gap perceived by external stakeholders when they doubt the authenticity of communicated information due to the reporting company’s governance structure. The paper uses family businesses to exemplify the emergence of such a gap when outsiders become concerned about the potential agency problem of the integrated ownership and management controlled by a few members of the same family. Following source credibility theory, these concerns raise a credibility gap associated with a family firm’s trustworthiness and goodwill, even if the family has the expertise to carry out sustainability reporting. The findings of two experimental studies indicate that family businesses suffer a greater credibility gap than non-family businesses. An external and independent assurance service can mitigate such gaps, especially when the service is comprehensive and targets family businesses. The paper provides a complete view evaluating corporate communication by looking at the interaction between the communicating company and the information recipients.Type: journal articleJournal: Journal of Business EthicsVolume: 153Issue: 2
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PublicationThe Impact Of Changing Age And Gender Norms On Entrepreneurship: A Cohort StudySocial norms regarding age- and gender-appropriate behaviors exert a strong influence on how entrepreneurs organize their lives. We examine the implications of socio-historical changes in age and gender norms for entrepreneurship by elucidating how the typical life stage at the time of entrepreneurial entry has shifted across socio-historical cohorts of entrepreneurs, as well as how the performance consequences of being married or having children at the time of entrepreneurial entry have changed over time. Based on cohort analyses of US self-employment data from the 1979 and 1997 cohorts of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we find that individuals today are less likely to be married and to have children when they enter entrepreneurship compared to entrepreneurs in the past. In addition, gender differences in the effect of being married and having children on entrepreneurial performance have decreased over time.Type: conference paperJournal: Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, BCERC Proceedings
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PublicationBeing in Bad Company: What Drives Negative Image Spillovers in Business Groups?( 2021)Richards, MelanieType: conference paper
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PublicationThe 2015 European refugee event and founder social identities: A multi-country and multi-level study(Academy of Management Proceedings, 2019-08)
;Hietschold, Nadine ;Sieger, PhilippVoegtlin, ChristianHow are founders’ social identities affected by societal trigger events? To address this question, we build on social identity literature and theorize how the abrupt and significant increase in the number of refugees in Europe in 2015 is related to the strength of Darwinian, Communitarian, and Missionary social identities of founders residing in the affected countries. Furthermore, we introduce a country’s percentage of foreigners before the 2015 refugee event as relevant contingency factor. Using a dataset of 6,841 nascent entrepreneurs from 24 European countries, we reveal a positive relationship between the 2015 refugee event and the strength of founders’ Communitarian identity. This relationship is even stronger when the previous percentage of foreigners in a country is lower. Interestingly, we do not find significant relationships between the refugee event and Darwinian or Missionary identities. Our study provides important contributions to the (founder) social identity literature and valuable implications for policy and practice.Type: conference paperVolume: 2019 -
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