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| Research on the Influence Mechanism of Team Cohesion of Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Team Based on Grounded Theory |
| Wang Congying1,Zhao Shuming1,Qin Weiping2,Ding Mingzhi3 |
| （1.School of Business, Nanjing University，Nanjing 210093，China；2.MBA Education Center，Nanjing University of Finance and Economics，Nanjing 210023,China；3.School of Economics and Management，Anhui University of Science and Technology，Huainan 232001，China） |
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Abstract Undergraduate entrepreneurship is the process of entrepreneurship taking special groups of college students and graduated college students as the primary part. In order to fully realize the 14th Five-year Plan and 2035 vision goals，China has promoted the policy of strengthening employment and improved the guarantee system of improving business start-ups in order to expand employment and encourage flexible employment. At the same time, the general background of “unblocking major domestic circulation and promoting both domestic and international circulation” brought new opportunities for undergraduate entrepreneurship. On the one hand, entrepreneurship is a high-risk activity. Several factors, such as environmental uncertainty, resource scarcity and information authenticity, make undergraduate individual entrepreneurship difficult. On the other hand, the entrepreneurial undergraduate team has clear goals, a flexible organizational structure, and effective ways of collaboration among members. Therefore, team mode of risk sharing, resource complementary and information sharing has become an important form of undergraduate entrepreneurship.#br#Team cohesion is not only the basis for the existence of undergraduate entrepreneurship team, but also the assurance of achieving team goals and improving team functions. Good team cohesion is beneficial to cultivating innovative thinking of entrepreneurial team members and promote high performance team outcome output. The lack of cohesion of entrepreneurial team is an important reason for the failure of undergraduate entrepreneurship. When an entrepreneurial team encounters difficulties, members often lack a mutual understanding of the team's goals and lead to the team's dissolution. When the entrepreneurial team is successful, members find it difficult to maintain cooperation due to the uneven distribution of benefits. Most undergraduate entrepreneurship teams break up or even disband at the early stage of their cooperation because “they can neither share the joys nor the sorrows”.#br#This paper takes the undergraduate entrepreneurship team that has been the major force in innovation and entrepreneurship as the research object, explores the factors affecting team cohesion and uses the grounded theory approach. The paper also discusses external intervention measures to enhance the cohesion of entrepreneurial teams to promote the theoretical and practical work of innovation and entrepreneurship education in colleges and universities. #br#Our research conducted in-depth interviews with six entrepreneurship teams and 24 team members. We construct a theoretical model of working event and working environment activation-cognitive evaluation-emotional reaction-attitude formation, including 17 sub-categories such as recognition of common interests and 5 main-categories such as the influence of working events to explain the influencing factors of team cohesion of undergraduate entrepreneurship team. Next, we apply affective event theory and emotional attribution theory to explain the deep reasons. Finally, we discuss the external intervention measures to enhance the cohesion of undergraduate entrepreneurship teams. The management implications of this study are as follows. Firstly, we should create a series of work events to reshape the common values of undergraduate entrepreneurship teams. Secondly, entrepreneurial team leaders show weakness appropriately and establish informal emotional connections with the team members. Thirdly, we should create a good working environment and activate the cohesion of undergraduate entrepreneurship teams. Lastly, team leaders should actively guide the development of benign emotions and timely handle bad emotions and negative mood of team members.#br#The existing research on the influencing factors of team cohesion are diverse, and conclusions are not consistent. This study constructs a complete and systematic theoretical framework to explore the influencing mechanism of undergraduate entrepreneurship team cohesion. Team cohesion is a dynamic development process. This study explores the dynamic influence mechanism of undergraduate entre- preneurship team cohesion from different periods (creation period, shock period, specification period, implementation period and termination period). This study answers the questions about how the team cohesion of undergraduate entrepreneurship team come into being, what factors affect it, and what the formation mechanism is, and further enriches the research context and cross-cultural research of team cohesion.#br#
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Received: 01 July 2021
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