Gjornâl Furlan des SiencisFriulian Journal of Science

No. 21 (2016): GFS
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Are successor entrepreneurs less satisfied than founders?

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  • DANIEL PITTINO
DANIEL PITTINO
Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Udine, Italy

Peraulis clâf

  • Entrepreneurs, job satisfaction, founders, successors, family firms

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PITTINO, D. 2016. Are successor entrepreneurs less satisfied than founders?. Gjornâl Furlan des Siencis - Friulian Journal of Science. 21, 21 (Jun. 2016), 63–75.

Ristret

A growing amount of research compares the job satisfaction of employees to self-employed. For the first time, we have conducted an exploratory study to compare the level and the drivers of job satisfaction of founder and successor entrepreneurs. We conceptualize the nexus between the condition of founder or successor, and job satisfaction by leveraging on the notion of procedural utility, that refers to the gratifications that individuals experience in the process of carrying out a task. Building on the notion of post succession-discretion, we argue that the social and organizational context of family firms is less conducive to procedural utility for successors

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