Abstract
The purpose of this study is to explore and insist the importance of perceived Individual Entrepreneurial Orientation（IEO）for others and perceived IEO discrepancies for oneself-others. In entrepreneurship research context, many studies focus on the influences of their own IEO of employees based on self-reported questionnaires. On the contrary, we try to insist the perceived IEO discrepancies for oneself to others based on social comparison theory. For those aims, we conducted questionnaires for employees in one Japanese traditional manufacturing company. We put our questionnaire data and the administrative data including the performance appraisal from the human resource section for our empirical studies. As a result, we find that perceived IEO discrepancies are significantly related to job variety as the subjective variable for the job-design and the past performance appraisal as the objective variable. The determinants of perceived IEO discrepancy are different from those of perceived IEO in some respects.
