以德服人:伦理型领导与创业团队成员的变动

Win over followers by virtue:Ethical leadership and founding team membership change

基于信号理论,探讨了领头创业者伦理型领导对创业团队成员变动的影响.研究一通过联合实验法,分析领头创业者伦理型领导对潜在创业团队成员加入意愿的影响.研究二采用问卷调查法,探究领头创业者伦理型领导对现有创业团队成员退出意愿的影响.结果表明,领头创业者伦理型领导会促进潜在团队成员的加入意愿,且上述影响受到新企业外部融资的负向调节及潜在团队成员诚实-谦恭的正向调节.此外,领头创业者伦理型领导会抑制现有团队成员的退出意愿,且这一关系受到创业团队独立导向伦理氛围和现有团队成员道德认同的正向调节及自利导向伦理氛围的负向调节.本文丰富了创业团队成员变动领域的研究,拓展了创业团队新成员加入的研究视角,深化了信号理论在创业情境的应用,对于创业团队成员的调整优化具有一定的借鉴意义.

Drawing on signaling theory, we examine the effect of lead founders’ ethical leadership on founding team member entry and exit. Study 1 conducts a conjoint experiment to explore the impact of lead founders’ ethical leadership on prospective founding team members’ intentions to join. Study 2 conducts a questionnaire survey to examine the influence of lead founders’ ethical leadership on existing founding team members’ intentions to exit. The results indicate that lead founders’ ethical leadership is positively related to prospective founding team members’ intentions to join and that the external financing and Honesty-Humility of prospective founding team members moderate the positive relationship. Furthermore, lead founders’ ethical leadership is negatively related to existing founding team members’ intentions to exit, and ethical climate and moral identity of existing founding team members moderate the negative relationship. The research provides theoretical support for the optimization of founding team members in practice.