Friend or foe? The effects of harmonious and obsessive passion on entrepreneurs’ well-being, strain and social loneliness

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Cross Cultural & Strategic Management Pub Date : 2022-01-03 DOI:10.1108/ccsm-03-2021-0056

Secil Bayraktar, Alfredo Jiménez

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Abstract

Purpose Passion is considered a critical aspect of entrepreneurship. According to the dualistic model of passion (DMP), entrepreneurs’ passion for their work can be harmonious or obsessive, leading to different personal and work outcomes. Drawing on DMP and the self-determination theory, this paper investigates these two types of passion for work and their effects on entrepreneurs’ subjective well-being (SWB), psychological strain and social loneliness.Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted a self-administered online survey with 312 entrepreneurs in Turkey. The authors selected the sample using purposive sampling and referrals through snowballing via associations, university start-up organizations, entrepreneur lists and personal networks. The data are analyzed using multiple regression analysis.Findings The results show that harmonious passion is negatively related to strain, while obsessive passion is positively related to both strain and social loneliness. Furthermore, both types of passion are associated with higher SWB. Finally, age moderates the relationship between obsessive passion and SWB.Practical implications The findings draw attention to another dark side to entrepreneurship and a useful perspective to raise awareness that entrepreneurs may think positively of obsessive passion and ignore the negative consequences.Originality/value This study contributes to the literature by showing that both positive and negative consequences of passion may co-exist based on the entrepreneurs’ self-perceptions. It also contributes to the very scarce research in non-western, emerging contexts in entrepreneurial passion research and constitutes the first study conducted on this topic in Turkey.

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朋友还是敌人？和谐与痴迷激情对企业家幸福感、压力和社会孤独感的影响

目的激情被认为是创业的一个重要方面。根据二元激情模型（DMP），企业家对工作的热情可以是和谐的，也可以是痴迷的，从而导致不同的个人和工作结果。本文运用DMP和自决理论，研究了这两种类型的工作热情及其对企业家主观幸福感、心理压力和社会孤独感的影响。设计/方法论/方法作者对土耳其312名企业家进行了一项自我管理的在线调查。作者通过有目的的抽样和通过协会、大学创业组织、企业家名单和个人网络的滚雪球推荐来选择样本。使用多元回归分析对数据进行分析。研究结果表明，和谐激情与压力呈负相关，强迫激情与压力和社交孤独呈正相关。此外，这两种类型的激情都与较高的主观幸福感有关。最后，年龄调节了强迫性激情和主观幸福感之间的关系。实际意义研究结果引起了人们对创业的另一个黑暗面的关注，并为提高人们的意识提供了一个有用的视角，即企业家可能会积极看待强迫性激情，而忽略其负面后果。独创性/价值这项研究对文献做出了贡献，表明基于企业家的自我认知，激情的积极和消极后果可能共存。它也有助于非西方新兴背景下创业激情研究中非常稀缺的研究，并构成土耳其首次就此主题进行的研究。

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Cross Cultural & Strategic Management MANAGEMENT-

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期刊介绍： Cross Cultural & Strategic Management (CCSM), is dedicated to providing a forum for the publication of high quality cross-cultural and strategic management research in the global context. CCSM is interdisciplinary in nature and welcomes submissions from scholars from international business, management and other disciplines, such as anthropology, economics, political science, psychology and sociology. The goal of CCSM is to publish discerning, theoretically grounded, evidence-based and cutting edge research on issues relevant to all aspects of global management. CCSM is especially interested in theoretical and empirical papers that investigate new and unique ideas and/or are multilevel (micro-meso-macro) and/or are multidisciplinary in nature. Research papers submitted to CCSM are expected to include an answer to the question: What is the contribution of this paper to the literature and the field of international business and managing in the global context? CCSM accepts theoretical/conceptual and empirical papers based on quantitative and qualitative research endeavors that advance our overall knowledge of international business. This includes research that yields positive, neutral or negative findings as long as these studies are based on sound research methodology, and have a good command of the theory/literature that pertains to the phenomena under investigation. These studies should also provide a more in-depth interpretation of the reason(s) for the findings and include more detailed recommendations for future research directions.