- Title
- The integral role of incubator managers in supporting tenants’ positive psychological wellbeing
- Creator
- Ollerenshaw, Alison; Murphy, Angela; McLaren, Suzanne; Thompson, Helen
- Date
- 2024
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/204479
- Identifier
- vital:20026
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1080/13215906.2024.2362670
- Identifier
- ISSN:1321-5906 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- Managers perform an important role at incubators by coordinating and managing operations while facilitating, and often delivering, services that support tenants’ business growth. Less is known about the relationship between managers and tenants at incubators, and how they support tenants’ positive psychological wellbeing. In this study, in-depth interviews with incubator managers (n = 28) and tenants (n = 12) were conducted to examine the role of managers in supporting tenant’s positive psychological wellbeing, focusing on the constructs of hope, efficacy, resilience, and optimism. The qualitative data provided consistent insights about the integral role of managers in supporting tenant’s positive psychological wellbeing, by facilitating their hope, efficacy, resilience, and optimism. Managers are essential in supporting tenants at a critical point in their business development. Consideration is given to the role that incubator managers fulfil at incubators and the provision of support they offer tenants, to meet their business and psychological needs. © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis Ltd.
- Relation
- Small Enterprise Research Vol. 31, no. 2 (2024), p. 117-140
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Rights
- Copyright © 2024 The Author(s)
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- 3506 Marketing; 3507 Strategy, management and organisational behaviour; Business incubators; Entrepreneurs; Incubator managers; Incubator tenants; Positive psychological wellbeing
- Full Text
- Reviewed
- Funder
- This work was supported by Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Stipend and RTP Fee-Offset Scholarship through Federation University Australia; Additional funding to support this research was provided by Melton City Council, the Western Business Accelerator and Centre for Excellence and the Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation, Federation University Australia.
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