ADHD symptoms, entrepreneurial passion, and entrepreneurial performance

Abstract

Recent studies have substantially enhanced our understanding of attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in entrepreneurship-articulating the theoretical relevance of ADHD-type traits in entrepreneurship and confirming the positive linkages between ADHD symptoms/diagnosis and entrepreneurial intentions and behavior. However, how and why some people with ADHD symptoms run successful ventures, while other entrepreneurs fail to perform well, is still not well established. Our study builds on a Gestalt perspective that integrates personenvironment fit and broaden-and-build theorizing, and proposes that strong positive emotions enable entrepreneurs with ADHD symptoms (at the subclinical level) to mitigate/ reinforce the effect of ADHD's trait-specific weaknesses/ strengths to achieve entrepreneurial performance. Relying on fuzzy-set methodology, our findings indicate that for entrepreneurs with ADHD symptoms, entrepreneurial performance occurs when they simultaneously experience passion for founding and developing. This passion configuration is unique to successful ADHD-type entrepreneurs. As such, this study offers novel theoretical and empirical insights as well as implications for practitioners.

Emotional skills for entrepreneurial success: the promise of entrepreneurship education and policy

“…For example, Hatak et al (2020) find that ADHD symptoms are related to the mental health of entrepreneurs, as well as entrepreneurial performance. However, they also find that the actual impacts of ADHD on mental health of entrepreneurial performance are influenced by the extent to which the entrepreneur is passionate about their entrepreneurial venture.…”

“…However, they also find that the actual impacts of ADHD on mental health of entrepreneurial performance are influenced by the extent to which the entrepreneur is passionate about their entrepreneurial venture. While the findings of Hatak et al (2020), along with Antshel (2018), make an invaluable contribution to identifying the links between emotions and entrepreneurship, they offer little in terms of clinical prognosis. They presumably leave that for others.…”

Psychological Capital on College Teachers’ and Students’ Entrepreneurial Performance and Sports Morality Under Social and Political Education

“…Hope is an individual’s overall perception that dreams are attainable with beliefs and efforts, and they have the pathways to go after the desired goals. Tenacity is an individual’s ability to quickly recover from adversity, conflict, and failure ( Hatak et al, 2021 ). Optimism is a positive attribution tendency, and it regards some favorable situations as lasting and universal and some adverse events as temporary ( Brixiová et al, 2020 ).…”

Entrepreneurial Passion and Entrepreneurial Success—The Role of Psychological Capital and Entrepreneurial Policy Support

“…In conclusion, there must be a connection between entrepreneurial passion, psychological capital and entrepreneurial success, and the relationship between them will be further affected by the support of external entrepreneurial policies. However, our study on entrepreneurial passion and entrepreneurial success from the perspective of psychological capital is rare (Hatak et al, 2021). Therefore, based on resource conservation theory and social processing theory, this article explores the relationship between entrepreneurial passion, psychological capital, entrepreneurial policy support, and entrepreneurial success, reveals the internal mechanism of entrepreneurial passion affecting entrepreneurial success, explores the mediating role of psychological capital, and tests the boundary effect of entrepreneurial policy support, thus complementing and perfecting the related research on entrepreneurial success.…”