1450: How Can Entrepreneurs Achieve Career Success Across the Lifespan? (19102)

Organizer(s)

• MT

  Mariya Tamontseva

  Vrije U. Amsterdam

Discussant(s)

• HZ

  Hao Zhao

  China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), China

Organizer(s)

• JA

  Jos Akkermans

  Vrije U. Amsterdam, Netherlands
• WS

  Wouter Stam

  Vrije U. Amsterdam, Netherlands
• SS

  Scott Seibert

  U. at Buffalo School of Management, United States

Presenter(s)

• MT

  Mariya Tamontseva

  Vrije U. Amsterdam
• US

  Ute Stephan

  King's College London, United Kingdom
• GW

  Gavin Williamson

  U. of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States
• SZ

  Siran Zhan

  U. of New South Wales, Australia

Moderator(s)

• SS

  Scott Seibert

  U. at Buffalo School of Management, United States

Although objective (e.g., earnings; Arthur et al., 2005) and subjective (e.g., career satisfaction; Seibert et al., 2013) career success has been extensively investigated in management and applied psychology (e.g., Ng & Feldman, 2014; Spurk et al., 2019), there is little understanding of this phenomenon in the context of individuals pursuing entrepreneurial careers (Seibert et al., 2024). This interdisciplinary symposium aims to address the following question: how can different groups of entrepreneurs achieve career success across the lifespan? To answer this question, we bring together four contributions by international research teams from various disciplines: careers, entrepreneurship, human resource management, and organizational behavior. In these contributions, authors focus on diverse groups of entrepreneurs, such as full-time, hybrid, and former entrepreneurs, and aim to advance the understanding of various objective and subjective dimensions of entrepreneurial career success. Examples of objective dimensions are becoming full-time entrepreneurs for hybrid entrepreneurs or securing a job for former entrepreneurs, while the subjective dimension may be described by multiple dimensions of satisfaction with entrepreneurial careers. Moreover, the authors also explore important contextual factors, such as political context, work design, and hiring discrimination, that might shape the career success outcomes of different groups of entrepreneurs. By bringing in contributions from different disciplines and different parts of the world, this symposium offers unique new insights into the career success of different groups of entrepreneurs and contributes to creating an interdisciplinary network of scholars that will move the research on entrepreneurial careers across the lifespan forward.

Presentations:

• 13:15 – 14:45 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  1450: Entrepreneurial Career Success: A Multidisciplinary Review and Future Research Agenda (19102)
  

  Author: Mariya Tamontseva – Vrije U. Amsterdam

  Author: Jos Akkermans – Vrije U. Amsterdam

  Author: Wouter Stam – Vrije U. Amsterdam

  Author: Scott Seibert – U. at Buffalo School of Management
• 13:15 – 14:45 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  1450: Gender and Entrepreneurial Wellbeing: The Role of Meaningful Work, Recovery, and Democracy (19102)
  

  Author: Ute Stephan – King's College London

  Author: Przemyslaw Zbierowski – King's College London

  Author: Ana Pérez-Luño – Trinity College Dublin School of Business
• 13:15 – 14:45 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  1450: How “Day Job” Work Design Influences Hybrid Entrepreneurs’ Career Success (19102)
  

  Author: Gavin Joseph Williamson – U. of Tennessee, Knoxville

  Author: Ali Mchiri – Sam Houston State U.
• 13:15 – 14:45 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  1450: Hiring Discrimination Against People with Entrepreneurial Experience (19102)
  

  Author: Siran Zhan – U. of New South Wales

  Author: Leigh Mellish – UNSW Sydney

  Author: Ying-yi Hong – Nanyang Technological U.