Passion and habitual entrepreneurship

Thorgren, Sara; Wincent, Joakim

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“…Being a part of a stimuli-rich environment, such as homebrewing communities, with a wide array of possibilities and examples of successful hobby to business transitions, can transform general passion for entrepreneuring into the development of context-related entrepreneurial intentions. The fact that prospective entrepreneurs decide to move ahead in the face of daunting obstacles suggests that they are highly passionate and indeed, literature indicates that passion is a very important and prevalent emotion among entrepreneurs Cardon et al 2009;Thorgren and Wincent 2015), both nascent and experienced.…”

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The Role of Entrepreneurial Passion and Creativity in Developing Entrepreneurial Intentions: Insights from American Homebrewers

Biraglia

Kadile

2016

Journal of Small Business Management

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The study investigates the role of entrepreneurial passion and creativity as antecedents of entrepreneurial intentions, applying social cognitive theory as an underpinning framework. Specifically, this research focuses on American homebrewing, seen as a potential incubator for entrepreneurs. Results demonstrate entrepreneurial passion having a strong positive relationship with entrepreneurial intentions, even when entrepreneurial self-efficacy is introduced as a mediator. Conversely, the relationship between creativity and entrepreneurial intentions is mediated by entrepreneurial self-efficacy, confirming that individuals also need to feel self-efficacious enough to pursue entrepreneurial career. The findings advance the understanding of nascent entrepreneurship phenomenon within a particular hobby context.

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The Role of Entrepreneurial Passion and Creativity in Developing Entrepreneurial Intentions: Insights from American Homebrewers

Biraglia

Kadile

2016

Journal of Small Business Management

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345

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“…Similarly, Dalborg and Wincent (2014) suggest passion is an essential attribute underpinning and driving entrepreneurship since it ensures that a business concept is appropriately refined and those important tasks, such as mobilizing resources and securing key customers, are pursued. Prior studies support the tenant that passion for work enhances an entrepreneur's creativity, persistence, and overall effectiveness (Cardon et al, 2009;Dalborg et al, 2012;Thorgren and Wincent, 2013) in transforming specific activities such as those associated with marketing to achieve growth (see also Baum and Locke, 2004). Passion for work also features cognitive aspects in the sense that people who are passionate about their work tend to engage in more intensive and systematic knowledge processing such as marketing when task-related demands require it (Ho et al, 2011) to achieve intended goals such as growth.…”

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Achieving growth-quality of work life ambidexterity in small firms

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Danaher

2015

Journal of Service Theory and Practice

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the individual mechanisms that mediate the relationship between marketing practices and growth-quality of work life ambidexterity. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected from small service firms via an online survey questionnaire electronically distributed to 7,271 owners of small firms in Australia. Partial least squares was used to test our mediation hypotheses on the data obtained. Findings – The authors demonstrate the mediation effect of entrepreneurial self-efficacy and passion for work in enhancing the relationship between marketing practices and growth-quality of work life ambidexterity. Practical implications – The findings indicate that being good at marketing does not always lead directly to achieving growth-quality of work life ambidexterity. The results suggest that achievement in both domains requires owners of small service firms to have a strong self-belief that they can perform their job successfully (entrepreneurial self-efficacy) as well as a strong passion to do the job they are doing (passion for work). Policy makers or small firm advisors can include this information to develop enactive mastery measures to promote efficacy and passion for work which can increase small firm survival rates. Originality/value – The high percentage of business terminations reported without financial loss underscores the importance of including both financial and non-financial goals for small firms. The approach to conceptualize and operationalize growth-quality of work life ambidexterity as a dependent variable representing firm performance assists by providing a more detailed and practical understanding of the organizational and individual variables that enable small firms to realize both.

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“…Future research could explore the differences among habitual (serial and portfolio), hybrid and novice entrepreneurs in terms of their passion and alertness for entrepreneurial activities. Previous studies have begun this research (Thorgren, Nordström, & Wincent, 2014;Thorgren & Wincent, 2015), but we need to continue studying these groups because they can provide relevant information for understanding the entrepreneurial process.…”

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The role of creativity in mediating the relationship between entrepreneurial passion and entrepreneurial alertness

Campos

2016

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to investigate creativity as an intermediate variable existing within the relationship between entrepreneurial passion and entrepreneurial alertness.Design/methodology/approach -This is a quantitative research using a moderated mediation model. A questionnaire is used and the analyses are performed with the answers from 244 people with at least 3 years of professional experience and graduate business studies. The discriminant validity of the variables is revised and a hierarchical regression analysis is performed for the hypotheses test.Findings -Significant relations are obtained with which a positive relationship between entrepreneurial passion and creativity can be confirmed, as well as a positive relationship between creativity and entrepreneurial alertness. However, the results also reported that creativity partially mediates the relationship between entrepreneurial passion and entrepreneurial alertness.Originality/value -The contribution of this research lies on showing empirical evidence of the link between entrepreneurial passion, creativity, and entrepreneurial alertness through the use of measurement scales recently developed. It also presents creativity as an intermediate variable in the entrepreneurial passion-alertness relationship.

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Passion and habitual entrepreneurship

Cited by 102 publications

References 39 publications

The Role of Entrepreneurial Passion and Creativity in Developing Entrepreneurial Intentions: Insights from American Homebrewers

The Role of Entrepreneurial Passion and Creativity in Developing Entrepreneurial Intentions: Insights from American Homebrewers

Achieving growth-quality of work life ambidexterity in small firms

The role of creativity in mediating the relationship between entrepreneurial passion and entrepreneurial alertness

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