Entrepreneurial Passion Research Articles

ADHD symptoms, entrepreneurial passion, and entrepreneurial performance

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 person–environment 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.Plain English Summary Do people with ADHD perform well in entrepreneurship? Our research shows how ADHD symptoms relate to entrepreneurial performance finding that passion is important. Entrepreneurs who are highly and thereby ambidextrously passionate for growing their businesses and for founding activities while lacking intense positive feelings for coming up with new ideas can benefit from ADHD. These results are important for people with ADHD and their loved ones.

Entrepreneurial Passion to Entrepreneurial Behavior: Role of Entrepreneurial Alertness, Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and Proactive Personality.

This study investigated the role of entrepreneurial passion in recognition of opportunity, developing entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and entrepreneurial intention, in the shaping of entrepreneurial actions in the presence of proactive personality. This study applied partial least squares structural equation modeling to test the hypotheses on a sample of 346 university students from Jiangsu province, China. The output of the study showed that entrepreneurial passion positively and significantly influenced entrepreneurial alertness, entrepreneurial self-efficacy to entrepreneurial intention, and entrepreneurial behavior. The findings also showed that a proactive personality positively and significantly moderated the relationship between entrepreneurial intention and entrepreneurial behavior.

Entrepreneurial passion, entrepreneurial expectation and entrepreneurial decision-making among college students

We examined entrepreneurial passion influences on entrepreneurial decision-making, and entrepreneurial expectation among 427 Chinese college students (female = 49.41%; mean age = 20.85 years, SD = 1.13 years). The students completed surveys on entrepreneurial passion, entrepreneurial expectation, entrepreneurial ability, and entrepreneurial decision-making. Results from path analysis indicated students with high entrepreneurial passion scores to also have high entrepreneurial decision-making scores. Students’ entrepreneurial expectation mediated the relationship between entrepreneurial passion and college students’ entrepreneurial decision-making. The students’ entrepreneurial ability moderated the relationship between entrepreneurial passion and entrepreneurial decision-making through entrepreneurial expectation. Entrepreneurial decision-making capabilities of students may provide insights into policies for entrepreneurial practice and education programs.

From Normalization to Innovation in New Product Development Projects

Although tolerating failure has been regarded as an essential part of the innovation process, much less is known about how failure normalization can drive innovation. We argue that failure normalization facilitates innovation by encouraging learning from failure, which in turn, depends on entrepreneurial passion. Using data from collected a survey of 237 new product development project (NPD) leaders in high-tech ventures, we find that learning from failure acts as a mediator in the relationship between failure normalization and innovation performance in the NPD process. However, failure normalization only provides an opportunity to learn and whether actual learning from failures occurs depends on NPD project leaders’ entrepreneurial passion. Our results suggest that the path from failure normalization to innovation in NPD requires a much more nuanced examination of not only the mediating role of learning from failure but also entrepreneurial passion, which functions as a motivational on-off switch for learning from failure.

Relating Passion to Entrepreneurial Effort, Self-Efficacy, and Performance: A Meta-Analysis

Entrepreneurial passion is becoming a hot research topic, and we perform a comprehensive meta-analysis based on 51 independent samples (N= 21,808) to synthesize empirical evidence and test a theoretical model. Our results show that entrepreneurial passion is related to entrepreneurial self-efficacy, effort, and performance, respectively. The structural equation modeling results show that entrepreneurial passion’s relationship with performance is mediated by entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial effort in that sequence. We also took a closer look at a widely used entrepreneurial passion measure developed by Cardon and colleagues (2013), and found tentative yet non-conclusive evidence that it has larger effect sizes than a previous measure of work passion developed by Vallerand and colleagues (2003). When scholars deviate from this measure’s usage guidelines (e.g., by combining passion scores across domains, or by not multiplying the identity centrality score with the feeling score), the effect sizes do not seem to drop. We discuss the implications of our work and ideas for future research.

“I Put in Effort, But I am Still Not Passionate”: The Influence of Person-Entrepreneurship Fit

Entrepreneurial effort has been found to be an important predictor of entrepreneurial passion: The more effort one devotes to entrepreneurial activities, the more passionate one becomes. Our work, however, extends prior research by offering contrasting empirical evidence. Drawing on fit theory and the person- entrepreneurship fit perspective, we conceptualize two types of fit: anticipatory person-entrepreneurship fit and perceived person- entrepreneurship fit and show that these two types of fit jointly shape the entrepreneurial effort – passion relationship. Our results suggest that entrepreneurial effort reduces individuals’ perceived person-entrepreneurship fit as well as entrepreneurial passion when individuals anticipate a poor person-entrepreneurship fit before making an effort. Our research thus contributes to the entrepreneurial passion and person-entrepreneurship fit literature and offers practical implications for would-be entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship advisors.

What’s Holding Back Recovery from Failure? Insights from Entrepreneurial Passion and Coping Strategy

What will affect corporate entrepreneurs to recover from project failure? This study theorizes that entrepreneurial passion before failure has influence on recovery from project failure. Drawing on the Dualistic Model of Passion, this study explores the relationships between dualistic entrepreneurial passions (harmonious and obsessive passion) and recovery from project failure, mediated by coping strategies (active and avoidance coping strategy). Using two-staged survey data from 257 project managers who had experienced project failure, we find that harmonious passion has positive effects on failure recovery, but obsessive passion has negative effects on failure recovery. Our results further reveal a set of pathways that active and avoidance coping strategies mediate the relationship between dualistic entrepreneurial passions and recovery from project failure, with results indicating that harmonious passion facilitates recovery from project failure through enhancing active coping strategy and reducing avoidance coping strategy, but obsessive passion hinders recovery from project failure through increasing avoidance coping strategy. This study has substantial implications for literature of failure recovery by giving attention to the affective antecedents before failure.

The Impact of Entrepreneurial Passion on Psychology and Behavior of Entrepreneurs.

In order to study the influence of entrepreneurial passion on entrepreneurs’ psychology and behavior, based on the theory of self-efficacy, a model of relationship between entrepreneurial passion and entrepreneurs’ psychology and behavior was constructed, relevant hypotheses were proposed, and the promotion mechanism of entrepreneurial passion on entrepreneurial behavior and enterprise performance was analyzed. A survey of 300 entrepreneurs from Hangzhou, Wenzhou, Jiaxing, Shaoxing, and Huzhou was conducted to verify the reliability of the questionnaire through statistical description and analysis. Then exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) were conducted to test the correlation between variables. Finally, the structural equation was simulated to verify the correctness of the proposed hypothesis and model. The results show that the designed questionnaire has good reliability [the correction item total correlation coefficients (CITC) of all scales are greater than 0.3, values of Cronbach’s α are higher than 0.6], the validity (all inventory accumulation explanation degree are higher than 50%) and the fitting (χ2/df values of all scales are less than 3, comparative fitness index (CFI), goodness of fitness index (GFI), and incremental fitness index (IFI) are greater than 0.9, root-mean-square error of approximation (RMSEA) value is less than 0.08). The direct effect of harmonious passion on entrepreneurial persistence and enterprise performance is not significant, while the direct effect of compulsive passion on entrepreneurial persistence and enterprise performance is significant. Harmonious passion (P < 0.001) and compulsive passion (P < 0.01) are significantly correlated with entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and self-efficacy plays a mediating role between entrepreneurial passion and entrepreneur psychology and behavior (P < 0.05), and the hypothesis proposed is basically valid. Therefore, entrepreneurial passion can positively guide the entrepreneurial persistence of entrepreneurs, and at the same time promote the performance of enterprises by stimulating the positive emotions of entrepreneurs. In addition, entrepreneurs can enhance their entrepreneurial role identity, maintain a positive attitude, stimulate creativity, and innovation, to enhance their sense of energy efficiency. The government can also promote successful business cases to build an inclusive and innovative social environment and stimulate the entrepreneurial passion of entrepreneurs. This study reveals the relationship between entrepreneurial passion, self-efficacy, and entrepreneur psychology and behavior, and extends the application of entrepreneurial passion in the field of entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneurial Passion and Self-Efficacy as Factors Explaining Innovative Behavior: A Mediation Model

Purpose: Dynamic and successful entrepreneurs and an enabling business environment are necessary if a company has to grow sustainably. However, research on the most important factors for entrepreneurs to be successful is still scarce. This paper analyzes the mediating effect of entrepreneurial passion - a key trait in successful entrepreneurs - on the relationship between entrepreneurial self-efficacy and innovative behavior. Design/Methodology/Approach: Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was used in a sample of 358 participants in the same number of companies. Findings: Results show that there is a significant complementary mediation effect of entrepreneurial passion on the relationship between entrepreneurial self-efficacy and innovative behavior. Practical Implications: This finding is important in order to further advance the understanding of the direct and indirect causes of entrepreneurial behavior. Originality/Value: Finally, this is especially important for understanding innovative behavior in an emerging economy with particular cultural, macro-economic and social characteristics.

The Influence of Personality, Entrepreneurial Passion, and Family Environment on Interest in Entrepreneurship

This research was made to identify and analyze the factors that influence Interest in Entrepreneurship with Personality, Entrepreneurial Passion, and Family Environment. The dependent variable in this study is Interest in Entrepreneurship while the independent variables in this study are Personality, Entrepreneurial Passion, and Family Environment. For data processing using IBM SPSS Statistics version 22 and IBM SPSS Amos version 22 with the aim of testing to test the relationship between variables, both latent variables and with indicator or manifest variables. Multivariate statistical techniques are used to handle many response variables and explanatory variables at the same time. This analysis is a good alternative to the method of multiple regression analysis and principal component regression because this method is more robust or invulnerable. Sampling using the convenience sampling method. This sampling method is part of the non probability sampling technique. Convenience sampling has advantages because the process of selecting samples and collecting data is relatively easy. The number of research samples is 200 people, obtained from the calculation using the Slovin formula.

Entrepreneurial passion, entrepreneurial perseverance, and new enterprise performance: Evidence from China

We investigated the relationship between entrepreneurial passion and new enterprise performance by introducing entrepreneurial perseverance and entrepreneurial competence as mediating mechanisms. Our sample comprised 228 new enterprise owners in Wuhan, Chengdu, and Zhengzhou, in China. The results of our empirical analysis show that entrepreneurial passion had a positive impact on new enterprise performance, and that entrepreneurial perseverance mediated this relationship. In addition, entrepreneurial competence had a positive mediating effect in the relationship between entrepreneurial perseverance and new enterprise performance, and partially mediated the relationship between entrepreneurial passion and new enterprise performance. That is, the stronger is an entrepreneur's competence, the stronger is the mediating effect of entrepreneurial perseverance on the performance of their new enterprise. Implications of the findings are discussed in the context of why encouraging and inspiring entrepreneurs is crucial to their success.

Effect of Entrepreneurial Passion and Positive Emotions on Customer Responses: Mixed Methods Approach

Purpose: In the highly competitive franchise market, the perceived entrepreneurial passion and emotions of customers are very important, because it...

The mediating role of passion in entrepreneurship intention: Identity centrality and role models increase passion

Entrepreneurial passion is the key to starting a business. Passion motivates desire so that entrepreneurs strive to achieve success. Passion is not only the experience of intense emotions but also a part of identity centrality. On the other hand, an individual’s entrepreneurial decisions can be influenced by the opinions and behaviors conveyed by others and a person's career ambitions can be significantly stimulated if they have a role model. The role model, in addition to inspiration, also plays an important role in helping individuals learn to identify themselves so entrepreneurial role models impart entrepreneurial passion for individuals to shape entrepreneurial intentions. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to examine the mediating role of passion in both relationships: between entrepreneurial identity centrality and entrepreneurship intention as well as between the entrepreneurial role model and entrepreneurship intention. The study is a quantitative research, data is surveyed in a single time collected from a population. 531 questionnaires are distributed to young people who are studying and working in Ho Chi Minh City and has the intention to start-up their own business. The findings of the research show that both above relationships are significantly mediated by passion. The research could support the theory of distal and proximal antecedence that influence entrepreneurship intention for students.

Entrepreneurial passion and entrepreneurial intention: the role of social support and entrepreneurial self-efficacy

ABSTRACT This study extended the research on the relationship between entrepreneurial passion and entrepreneurial intention by developing a moderated mediation model. This study investigated whether entrepreneurial self-efficacy mediates this relationship. Also, this study examines whether the social support moderates this mediation model by conducting a moderated mediation analysis. Using a sample of 500 valid responses from university students, this study established that firstly, entrepreneurial passion positively affects entrepreneurial intention and entrepreneurial self-efficacy. Secondly, the indirect effect of entrepreneurial passion on entrepreneurial intention through entrepreneurial self-efficacy was significant and positive. Thirdly, social support had a positive and significant influence on entrepreneurial intention, while the indirect effect of entrepreneurial passion on entrepreneurial intention through entrepreneurial self-efficacy was moderated by social support. The study culminates with practical implications for scholars and policymakers in South Africa.

Entrepreneurial passion, orientation and behavior: the moderating role of linear and nonlinear thinking styles

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to unpack the underlying mechanisms of entrepreneurs' passion, orientation and behavior by investigating the role of rational and nonrational cognitive elements. Building on dual process theory and sociointuitionism, a conceptual model is proposed in order to explore the relationship between entrepreneurial passion, entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and strategic entrepreneurship behavior (SEB). Specifically, entrepreneurs' linear thinking styles (System 2) and nonlinear thinking styles (System 1) are hypothesized as being significant moderators of such a relationship.Design/methodology/approachCovariance-based structural equation modeling (CB-SEM) is used to empirically validate the proposed conceptual model and test the moderating hypotheses on a sample of 300 entrepreneurs actively involved in European small and medium enterprises (SMEs).FindingsEntrepreneurial passion is shown to be a significant antecedent of EO, which, in turn, strongly influences SEB. Moreover, entrepreneurs' linear thinking style positively moderates the EO-SEB relationship, but not the link between passion and EO. Instead, a nonlinear thinking style positively moderates the relationship between passion and EO, but not the links between EO and SEB.Practical implicationsEntrepreneurs should trust their nonlinear thinking style – related to affective/emotive and intuitive information processing systems – to foster the effect of their entrepreneurial passion on EO. Furthermore, entrepreneurs should rely on a linear thinking style, namely the rational and deliberative cognitive processes, to enhance the impact of their EO on SEB.Originality/valueDual process theory and sociointuitionism are integrated to simultaneously investigate the effect of nonrational and rational cognitive mechanisms on entrepreneurs' orientation and behavior. Moreover, the proposed model is empirically tested on a sample of entrepreneurs working in SMEs located in Europe, which have received little attention from entrepreneurship scholars in comparison to their US counterparts. The authors’ findings suggest important implications for entrepreneurs, policymakers and entrepreneurial universities educators.

Impact of Future Time Perspective on Entrepreneurial Career Intention for Individual Sustainable Career Development: The Roles of Learning Orientation and Entrepreneurial Passion

This study addressed the underlying mechanisms through which future time perspective (FTP) motivates entrepreneurial career intention. By focusing on entrepreneurship as an important career decision for individual sustainable career development, we argued that the generic use of a learning orientation approach mediates the effect of the presence of an extended FTP on individual entrepreneurial career intention. We also posited that entrepreneurial passion for founding moderates the relationship between learning orientation and individual entrepreneurial career intention. Using a survey data of 416 students attending a Chinese public sector university, we found that FTP enhanced learning orientation, which, in turn, stimulated entrepreneurial career intention. Moreover, the positive relationship between learning orientation and entrepreneurial career intention became strong as entrepreneurial passion for founding increased. Results were discussed in terms of implications for theory and practice.

Barriers Affecting the Passion and Entrepreneurial Intention of University of the ITSON

The purpose of this article is to analyze the internal and external barriers experienced by university students of the Technological Institute of Sonora (ITSON) for the development of entrepreneurship. The study is focused on a sample of 733 students from the areas of engineering, administrative sciences, and social sciences. The field work was carried out during the months of May to September 2018. The controlled statistical technique for data analysis was the structural equation model (SEM) with the support of SMARTPLS software version 3.2.8. The results have revealed that internal creativity barriers are the ones that most negatively impact the entrepreneurial passion of ITSON university students. This research contributes to the development of entrepreneurship literature from the area of psychology and business sciences through planned behavior theory, cognitive theory, and self-determination.

Passion and perseverance as two new dimensions of an Individual Entrepreneurial Orientation scale

This study sought to validate a scale for quantitative research on two emerging dimensions of individual entrepreneurial orientation (IEO): passion and perseverance. The proposed measurement instrument was developed, validated and tested using data on 249 agri-food firms created in the last five years in a Portuguese region. The final analysis of the IEO dimensions and corresponding items used confirmatory factor analysis, resulting in an adjusted, reliable multidimensional model. The latter comprised the three core dimensions of IEO—risk taking, innovativeness and proactivity—and the additional dimensions of passion and perseverance. This study is of interest to those who deem conducting research at different analytical levels important since the results explicitly explain the interaction between IEO and the underexplored concepts of entrepreneurial passion and perseverance. The findings show that these individual characteristics have implications for entrepreneurs as all five dimensions influence firm management through entrepreneurial orientation.

Entrepreneurial passion and a firm’s innovation strategies

ABSTRACT Drawing upon the role of affect in the entrepreneurship model and the broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions, this study surveyed 195 entrepreneurs in Vietnam and found that entrepreneurial passion has a positive effect on a firm’s exploratory innovation strategies and a complex inverted U-shaped effect on the exploitative innovation strategies. These results extend the literature on entrepreneurial emotions and underscore the need to depart from the simplistic linear association between entrepreneurial passion and firm-level indicators. Furthermore, this study enriches our understanding of three types of entrepreneurs’ social identities by supporting their contingent effects on the links between passion and innovation strategies.

Entrepreneurs' social networks and opportunity identification: Entrepreneurial passion and entrepreneurial alertness as moderators

We examined the relationship between entrepreneurs' social networks and opportunity identification, and the moderating roles of entrepreneurial passion and entrepreneurial alertness in this relationship. Results from 142 entrepreneurs supported the hypothesis that both their business ties and their political ties would be positively related to opportunity identification, and these relationships would be moderated by entrepreneurial passion and entrepreneurial alertness. Entrepreneurial passion weakened the relationship between business ties and opportunity identification, but amplified the relationship between political ties and opportunity identification. Further, entrepreneurial alertness strengthened the relationship between business ties and opportunity identification. The results suggest that the effect of entrepreneurs' social ties on opportunity identification depends on the level of the individual's entrepreneurial passion and entrepreneurial alertness.