Abstract Drawing upon life history theory, this research developed and tested a theoretical model through the scenario-based experiment and questionnaire survey method to investigate how entrepreneurs’ childhood socioeconomic status, as a distal motivational factor, affect their radical innovation through the proximal mediating motivation of regulatory focus. The results reveal that: ① entrepreneur’s childhood socioeconomic status has a significant negative impact on radical innovation. ② Entrepreneur’s regulatory focus mediates the relationship between childhood socioeconomic status and radical innovation. Entrepreneurs with low childhood socioeconomic status exhibit a higher promotion-focused orientation, thereby positively influence their radical innovation. In contrast, entrepreneurs with high childhood socioeconomic status exhibit a prevention-focused orientation, hindering their radical innovation. ③ Furthermore, entrepreneurs current socioeconomic status moderates the relationship between regulatory focus and radical innovation.
JIANG Shiyao,GAO Xue,JIA Junqi等. The Influence of Entrepreneurs Childhood Socioeconomic Status on Radical Innovation: The Perspective of Life History Theory[J]. Chinese Journal of Management, 2024, 21(10): 1511-.
