Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy as a Ward Against the Effects of Poor Sleep on Behaviors

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Presentation

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Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings includes abstracts of all papers and symposia presented at the annual conference, plus 6-page abridged versions of the “Best Papers” accepted for inclusion in the program (approximately 10%). Papers published in the Proceedings are abridged because presenting papers at their full length could preclude subsequent journal publication. Please contact the author(s) directly for the full papers.

Keywords

entrepreneurial behavior; sleep; self-efficacy

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https://doi.org/10.5465/AMPROC.2023.16370abstract

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CC-BY-NC-ND

Abstract

Abstract

Entrepreneurial behavior requires energy, and so entrepreneurs need to sleep. However, combining a scarcity perspective of energy with an abundance perspective of energy, we show that entrepreneurs high in entrepreneurial self-efficacy are less dependent on good sleep than are entrepreneurs low in self-efficacy. Conducting an experience sampling study of 93 entrepreneurs over one workweek, we studied how sleep quality and entrepreneurial self-efficacy affect entrepreneurs’ day-to-day energy and their subsequent entrepreneurial behavior. The results showed that sleep quality has a positive indirect effect on daily creativity and daily monitoring (but not daily scanning/search) through morning vigor and that this relationship is contingent on entrepreneurial self-efficacy, with sleep quality unrelated to morning vigor and subsequent behavior for entrepreneurs high in self-efficacy.

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