Entrepreneurship in times of economic stress: unraveling the U-shaped relationship between the internality of causal attributions and growth

GUILHERME FOWLER DE AVILA MONTEIRORINALDO ARTES2024-05-042024-05-0420241758-78401462-6004https://repositorio.insper.edu.br/handle/11224/6638Purpose – This paper examines the relationship between entrepreneurs’ internality of causal attributions and firm growth during an economic crisis. We propose a U-shaped relationship between the two variables, arguing that the highest-growth entrepreneurs are those with either the highest or lowest levels of internal attribution (IA) during such periods.Digital24 p.enEntrepreneurship in times of economic stress: unraveling the U-shaped relationship between the internality of causal attributions and growth10.1108/JSBED-06-2023-0258