Drawing on the literature involving the venture start-up process, integrated with motivational theory from the field of organizational behavior, a model describing the factors that affect firm start-up, strategic implementation, and the entrepreneur's decision to sustain entrepreneurship is proposed. Several hypotheses for future research are suggested.
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