Entrepreneurial Outcomes and Organisational Performance through Business Coaching
Author:Mihaela Dobrea and Irina Maiorescu
JEL:M12, M53, I25
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Keywords:Business Coaching, Executive Coaching, Financial Performance, Income,
Entrepreneurial, Control, Self-efficacy.
Abstract:
The hereby article aims to address the main question of whether organisational performance
is directly or indirectly enhanced by business coaching. The research integrates a
quantitative study having as major purpose the investigation of the manner in which
business coaching contributes to corporation growth in start-up firms and developing
companies. The primary objective of the research is to quantitatively determine the effects
enhanced by business coaching on company performance and growth of organisational
incomes. SME growth and coaching impact are studied through inter-relationships between
distinctive company characteristics (such as: industry category, company maturity, number
of employees), entrepreneur features (among which can be mentioned: leader age, nominal
gender, studies), and entrepreneur character (for instance: locus of control at work, selfefficacy
in the work place). The comparison is made between two types of entrepreneurs:
the ones who have received business coaching previously with entrepreneurs with no prior
business coaching experience, except the one after which research is performed. The
research concludes that business coaching has a great impact on the development of
entrepreneurs’ locus of control and self-efficacy, these leading to organisational growth.