A growing body of research explores how employees' organizational context shapes their entrepreneurial activity. We add to this work by examining how “educational mismatch” – when a job does not utilize the skills an employee has acquired during education – relates to subsequent...

Entrepreneurial ventures rely not only on founders, but also on “joiners” – start-up employees who are attracted to entrepreneurship but who do not want to be founders themselves. Drawing upon both preference and contextual theories of entrepreneurship, we examine how individuals’...