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Streeb, Mirjam ; Franzke, Sonja ; Baum, Matthias:
Handling the Beast : How Entrepreneurs Deal with Their Obsessive Passion.
In: Academy of Management Proceedings.
(2023)
Issue 1
.
ISSN 2151-6561
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5465/AMPROC.2023.12613abstract
Abstract in another language
Recent research suggests that entrepreneurs are not only ‘passive victims’ (or beneficiaries) of their passion but can actively handle their passion to maximize advantages and avoid harmful consequences. Given that passion is an important antecedent of entrepreneurial success, exploring how entrepreneurs can manage their passion is of high interest for entrepreneurship research. We probe into this issue with qualitative data on 37 entrepreneurs, exploring their experience and handling strategies of obsessive passion. We find that there are several pathways to passion handling. The pathways differ regarding the degree of consciousness and active control entrepreneurs take over their obsessive passion. This has implications for how we regard obsessive passionate entrepreneurs: we move from regarding them as passive holders of an obsessive-passion-trait to active agents shaping their own obsessive passion. We show that when entrepreneurs successfully achieve to establish their own optimal obsessive passion level, they maximize the positive consequences thereof.
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| Item Type: | Article in a journal |
|---|---|
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Keywords: | Dualistic Model of Passion; obsessive passion; self-regulation; entrepreneurial cognition |
| Institutions of the University: | Faculties > Faculty of Law, Business and Economics > Department of Business Administration > Chair Business Administration XVI > Chair Business Administration XVI - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Matthias Baum Faculties Faculties > Faculty of Law, Business and Economics Faculties > Faculty of Law, Business and Economics > Department of Business Administration Faculties > Faculty of Law, Business and Economics > Department of Business Administration > Chair Business Administration XVI |
| Result of work at the UBT: | Yes |
| DDC Subjects: | 300 Social sciences > 330 Economics |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Aug 2023 08:18 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Aug 2023 08:18 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/86566 |