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Impact Analysis of Coaching Activities over Entrepreneur with respect to Entrepreneurs' Personal Characteristics on the Performance of Startups: Focusing on Entrepreneurs's Awareness Conversion Effect  

Jeon, Eunjee (Hanbat National University, Graduate School of Entrepreneurial Management)
Yang, Youngseok (Hanbat National University, Graduate School of Entrepreneurial Management)
Kim, Myungseuk (Hanbat National University, Graduate School of Entrepreneurial Management)
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Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship / v.14, no.1, 2019 , pp. 47-58 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper is brought to analyze an impact of coaching activities over entrepreneur with respect to entrepreneurs' personal characteristics on the performance of Startups focusing on entrepreneur's awareness conversion effect. In particular, the situation of falling focus of serious startup failure on uncoachable obstinate entrepreneur among the several causes of startup failures, this paper define the research mission of reducing this risk by inducing coaching types of cooperations between senior entrepreneur having serial successful startup experiences and beginning entrepreneur. This paper carry out literature reviews chiefly on startup coaching researches rather than mentoring studies because coaching stressing on self-oriented problem defining and solving by entrepreneur actively tend to be more effective than mentoring relying on mentor's guideline passively as solving startup's main upcoming problems. This paper implement four related researches. First, the impact analysis of entrepreneur's personal characteristics on coaching activities, second, influences of entrepreneurs environmental factors on them, Third, impact of coaching activities on entrepreneur's awareness conversion effect, Fourth, how strongly this conversion effect contributing on the performance of startup. As results of empirical research, first, this paper prove that entrepreneur's environmental factors impact positively on coaching activities over entrepreneur although failing on validating on significant impact of entrepreneur's personal characteristics on coaching activities. Second, this paper prove that coaching activities positively influence on entrepreneur's awareness conversion, hence ultimately positively on the performance of startups. As conclusion, this paper validate that coaching activities over entrepreneur through inducing on the conversion of entrepreneur's awareness lead entrepreneur to setting the bar high and accountable planning of business milestone. This paper contribute on delivering policy implication that government initiatin action-oriented training program for entrepreneurs should accept the module of coaching session to produce more effective results.
Keywords
Entrepreneur's Personal Characteristics; Environmental Factors of Entrepreneur; Coaching Activities over Entrepreneur; Entrepreneur's Awareness Conversion; Startup Performance;
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