The intention to quit entrepreneurship in tourism SMEs: The effect of work addiction |
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| Institution: | 1. University Institute for Cybernetic Science and Technologies, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Despacho C-2.21, Ed. de Económicas y Empresariales, Campus de Tafira, 35017 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain;2. Faculty of Economics, Business and Tourism. University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Despacho C-3.11, Ed. de Económicas y Empresariales, Campus de Tafira, 35017 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain;3. Mid Atlantic University, Carretera de Quilmes, 37, 35017 Tafira Baja, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain;1. The University of Queensland Business School, Blair Drive, St Lucia, 4052, Brisbane, QLD, Australia;2. School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, University of Surrey, Guildford, GU2 7XH, UK;3. School of Public Health, Curtin University, WA, Australia;1. University of Applied Forest Sciences, Schadenweilerhof, D-72108 Rottenburg, Germany;2. Eurac Research, Center for Advanced Studies, Drususallee/Viale Druso 1, I-39100 Bozen/Bolzano, Italy;3. University Eichstätt - Ingolstadt, Pater-Philipp-Jeningen-Platz 2, D-85072 Eichstätt, Germany;1. Business School, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China;2. Rosen College of Hospitality Management, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, United States;3. School of Hotel and Tourism Management, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China;1. Department of Tourism, Fudan University, China;2. School of Hotel and Tourism Management, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China |
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| Abstract: | Entrepreneurship is one of the fundamental tools in the generation of economic activity and labor in the tourism industry, with Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) playing a relevant role in the sector. Academic studies on entrepreneurship have focused more on the keys to entrepreneurial success, rather than on the factors leading to its abandonment. In the tourism sector, the lack of research on this matter is even more significant. In response to this gap in literature, this article aims to be a first approach to the study of work addiction as an antecedent of entrepreneurial abandonment. The main contribution of this study confirms the relationship between the different constructs that relate work addiction to entrepreneurship withdrawal. Thus, hypotheses relating driveness and lack of work enjoyment to the intention to quit entrepreneurship are supported. The hypothesis relating work involvement with the intention to quit is not supported, however. A number of important implications derive from this study. Among them, our results demonstrate that the relationship between workaholism and the intention to quit entrepreneurship in the tourist SME sector is supported, and that work enjoyment can act as a mediator strengthening the effect of the driveness to work on the intention to quit. |
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| Keywords: | Tourism entrepreneurship SME Business failure Workaholism Work addiction Work enjoyment Work involvement |
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