臺灣博碩士論文加值系統

Entrepreneurship has been trendy in Taiwan because the government tries to boom the economy. The prior researchers have proved entrepreneurial opportunity identification plays a key role in entrepreneurship. The main purpose of the study is to examine it empirically. How entrepreneurial opportunity identification will influence entrepreneurial performance is explored in the study. The research tested moderating model and mediating model in entrepreneurial competition: age and entrepreneurial experience moderates stress perceived, stress tolerance and entrepreneurial opportunity identification; entrepreneurial opportunity identification mediates stress perceived, stress tolerance and entrepreneurial performance.

Data was collected from the competition, “From IP to IPO” held by the Ministry of Science and Technology in Taiwan. The total number of valid team samples was 104, and the individual samples was 427 in collected in four batches continuously. The results are: (1) Stress tolerance and stress perceived will influence the entrepreneurial opportunity identification. (2) Both stress perceived and stress tolerance will be moderated by age and entrepreneurial experience to affect the entrepreneurial opportunity identification. Study contribution is that the data was collected for four batches of competition, which made primary variables in study could subjectively be observed. It also provides a quite reliable reference for those who wanted to start a business.

Abstract 3
1 Introduction 7
2 Literature review 7
2.1 Entrepreneurial opportunity identification (EOI) 7
2.2 Stress perceived, stress tolerance and entrepreneurial opportunity identification 8
2.3 Entrepreneurial opportunity identification and entrepreneurial performance 8
2.4 The mediating role of entrepreneurial opportunity identification 9
2.5 The moderating role of demographic variables 9
2.6 Hypothesis 9
3 Method 11
3.1 Sample and data collection 11
3.2 Measurement 13
3.3 Analysis strategy 17
3.3.1 Confirmatory Factor Analysis 17
3.3.2 Reliability Analysis 17
3.3.3 Correlated Analysis 17
3.3.4 Regression Analysis 17
3.3.5 ANOVA 18
4 Result 18
4.1 Confirmatory Factor Analysis 18
4.2 Correlated analysis 18
4.3 Hypothesis testing 20
4.4 Structural Model Comparison 22
4.5 Regression analysis 23
4.6 ANOVA analysis 27
5 Discussion and conclusion 28
5.1 Practical implications 28
5.2 Contribution 29
5.3 Limitations 30
5.4 Future research directions 30
5.5 Conclusion 30
6 Acknowledgement 31
7 References 32
8 Appendix 35
　　　　　　　　　　　
List of tables
Table 1 Question List of Entrepreneurial Opportunities Identification 14
Table 2 Question List of Stress Perceived 15
Table 3 Question List of Stress Tolerance 15
Table 4 Descriptive analysis of stress tolerance 16
Table 5 Descriptive analysis of stress perceived 16
Table 6 Descriptive analysis of EOI 17
Table 7 Correlations, means, and deviations among variables 19
Table 8 Correlations, means, and deviations among variables 20
Table 9 Result of hypothesis tests 21
Table 10 Structural model comparison 22
Table 11 Regression analysis of moderators 24
Table 12 Regression analysis of EOI and entrepreneurial performance 26
Table 13 The mediating model: stress perceived 27
Table 14 The mediating model: stress tolerance 27
Table 15 ANOVA analysis in batches of 2015 28
Table 16 ANOVA analysis in batches of 2016 28

 
List of figures

Figure 1 Process in FITI competition 13
Figure 2 Structure of the study 21
Figure 3 Moderating effect of entrepreneurial experience on stress tolerance and EOI 24
Figure 4 Moderating effect of age on stress tolerance and EOI 25
Figure 5 Moderating effect of entrepreneurial experience on stress perceived and EOI 25
Figure 6 Moderating effect of age on stress perceived and EOI 26


List of appendix
Appendix A. Hong-Tu camp: Demographics data 35
Appendix B. Shih-Chien camp: Demographics data 36
Appendix C. Sample size of Hong-Tu camp 37
Appendix D. Sample size of Shi-Chien camp 37
Appendix E. Extracted questionnaire for FITI competition 38

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