Should I stay or should I go? : the interplay between scientific and entrepreneurial passion in shaping the frustration-intention relationship in the academia

Balzano, Marco (author), Bortoluzzi, Guido (author), Bunjak, Aldijana (author), Černe, Matej (author)

Academic careers come with many joys but are frequently accompanied by frustration. In the present study, we provide a multi-dimensional measure of academic frustration. Using a sample of 312 differently frustrated academics across the globe, our study develops a new perspective on academic frustration and academics' intention to stay or leave academia. We empirically investigate the interaction between academic frustration and scientific and entrepreneurial passion in predicting four different intention outcomes: spin-off, startup, leaving academia, and changing university. Our findings indicate that scientific passion positively determines the intention to stay in academia, whereas entrepreneurial passion prompts academics to opt out of academic careers when overly frustrated. This study contributes to multiple literature and offers practical implications for academics and institutions. From a policy perspective, we seek to provide guidance on how to deal with the intentions and actions of frustrated academics.

• Language: English
• Keywords: business schools, research work, entrepreneurship, management, academic frustration, scale development, frustration, scientifc passion, entrepreneurial passion, intention to stay/leave
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: EF - School of Economics and Business
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2024
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-169880
• UDC: 001.89(4)
• ISSN on article: 0952-8733
• DOI: 10.1057/s41307-024-00348-1
• COBISS.SI-ID: 188876291
• Publication date in RUL: 13.06.2025

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Higher education policy
• Shortened title: High. educ. policy
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• ISSN: 0952-8733
• COBISS.SI-ID: 35388416

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: poslovne šole, raziskovalno delo, podjetništvo, management

Projects

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: J5-4574
• Name: Omejitve agilnega dela: Preučevanje učinkov agilnosti na spanje in inovativnost

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: P5-0441
• Name: Regeneracija ekonomije in posla