Degree
Master of Science in Management
School
School of Business Studies (SBS)
Department
Department of Management
Date of Submission
Fall 2026-9-18
Supervisor
Dr. Yasir Mansoor Kundi, Assistant Professor, Department of Management
Committee Member 1
Dr. Shuaib Ahmed Soomro, Examiner I, Associate Professor – Management, KEDGE Business School, France
Committee Member 2
Dr. Subhan Shahid, Examiner II, Assistant Professor, KEDGE Business School, France
Committee Member 3
Dr. Ashar Saleem, Assistant Professor & Director Graduate Programs SBS, Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi
Submission Type
Graduate Thesis
Document Type
Restricted Access
Keywords
Family Support, Decision Fatigue, Entrepreneurial Exit Intentions, daily diary approach, women entrepreneurs
Abstract
The current study extends the literature of entrepreneurial intention to the exit decision domain. Considering the fact that most of the entrepreneurship and management studies focus on startup intentions and venture entry, this study explicitly analyze the entrepreneurial exit intention as a distinct behavioral and cognitive construct, by this means responding to the recognized imbalance between exit-focused and entry-focused research. Grounded in the Conservation of Resources theory, this quantitative diary study examined the daily influence of family support on women entrepreneur’s intention to exit through a cascading resource caravan passageway, having a successive resource gain and depletion mechanisms (psychological, personal, cognitive and coping, resources). Data was gathered from a sample of 56 women entrepreneurs over 12 days and twice a day using daily survey. Bayesian Multilevel modeling was employed to assess within person relationships by examining the mediating roles of decision fatigue, resource induced coping heuristics (RICH), guilt, entrepreneurial resilience and entrepreneurial passion between family support and entrepreneurial exit intentions. Current study contributes to entrepreneurial exit intention literature by positioning exit intentions as a resource depleting outcome of a cascading resource transformation process instead that a consequence of individual characteristics or venture performance.
Recommended Citation
Amin, M. (2026). The Invisible Push: How Family Support and Cognitive & Emotional Strain Drive Exit Intentions in Women Entrepreneurs – A Daily Diary Approach (Unpublished graduate research project). Institute of Business Administration, Pakistan. Retrieved from https://ir.iba.edu.pk/research-projects-mgt/50
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