Table 2

Main theories used in dark entrepreneurship articles

TheoriesAuthors
Leadership Contingency TheoryChang et al. (2024) 
Self-regulation TheoryBrownell et al. (2024) 
Social Entrepreneurship TheoryMolderez and Fets (2023), Talmage et al. (2019) 
Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB)Yadav and Batra (2023), Sahinidis et al. (2023), Overall (2016) 
Organizational Learning TheoryChang and Xu (2023) 
Dark Triad TheoryChaudhary and Biswas (2023) 
Resource-Based TheoryCrick et al. (2023) 
Moral Disengagement TheoryQin et al. (2022) 
Self-Determination TheoryBayraktar and Jiménez (2022), Kibler et al. (2019) 
Theory of Psychological OwnershipAstner (2022) 
Identity TheoryAbebe et al. (2022) 
New Internalization Theory (NIT)Verbeke et al. (2021) 
Stakeholder TheoryKautonen et al. (2020) 
Passion Theory of Entrepreneurshipde Mol et al. (2020) 
Social Dominance Theory and Social Dominance OrientationGutierrez and D’Mello (2020) 
Conservation of Resource Theory (COR)Chang et al. (2023) 
Principal Agent TheoryKarmann et al. (2016) 
Optimal Distinctiveness TheoryShepherd and Haynie (2009) 
Institutional TheoryKhan et al. (2007) 
Conflict Resolution TheoryHoy (1994) 

Source(s): Own elaboration

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