%0 Journal Article
%T Entrepreneurship as a Calling: A Pilot Study with Aspiring Entrepreneurs
%A Miguel Pereira Lopes
%A Patricia Jardim Da Palma
%A Telmo Ferreira Alves
%J The Journal of Entrepreneurship
%@ 0973-0745
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0971355718781276
%X Previous research in work and organisational studies has found that individuals may experience their work as a job, a career or a calling. That experience, in turn, has a significant influence on their performance. In the present study, we apply this framework to the field of entrepreneurship and examine if the experience of aspiring entrepreneurs as a job, a career or a calling impacts their ability to attract resources for a new venture by considering two different resource attraction strategies presented in the literature: network positioning and proactive search. The results show that seeing entrepreneurship as a job has a negative impact on both network positioning and proactive search strategies. Experiencing entrepreneurship as a calling, however, has a positive impact on proactive search strategy. Perceiving entrepreneurship as a career is not related to resource attraction strategies. These findings illustrate that the way aspiring entrepreneurs experience their role as entrepreneurs affects their efforts as well as others¡¯ confidence in terms of attracting resources for their new ventures. Theoretical and practical implications are addressed at the end of this work
%K Entrepreneurial work orientation
%K resource attraction strategies
%K resource holders
%K entrepreneurship as a calling
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0971355718781276