I can't get no sleep—The differential impact of entrepreneurial stressors on work-home interference and insomnia among experienced versus novice entrepreneurs
By Tobias Kollmann, Christoph Stöckmann, Julia M. Kensbock. Journal of Business Venturing, 2019
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Abstract When founding and managing a new business, entrepreneurs are frequently confronted with stressors hampering their daily work. The present study examines how these entrepreneurial stressors affect two important interrelated indicators of entrepreneurs' recovery and well-being—that is, their ability to detach from work during non-work times (work-home interference) and their sleep (insomnia). We introduce prior entrepreneurial experience as an important moderator to these relationships, arguing that due to their different learning and coping experiences and their different interpretations of the entrepreneurial role, experienced versus novice entrepreneurs would react differently to entrepreneurial stressors. In an empirical study with 122 entrepreneurs, we found that among experienced entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial stressors primarily had a direct sleep-impairing effect. Among novice entrepreneurs, the same stressors primarily initiated an indirect effect by leading to increased work-home interference and consequently also increased insomnia. Overall, thus, our study shows that both novice and experienced entrepreneurs suffer from insomnia when encountering entrepreneurial stressors—however, the underlying mechanisms differ. Implications are discussed in terms of both theory and practice.
Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science
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- Self-Compassion When Coping With Venture Obstacles: Loving-Kindness Meditation and Entrepreneurial Fear of Failure (2019, background): “…is known to be particularly effective as, for example, when entrepreneurs become stressed or demoralized (e.g., Allen & Leary, 2010; Rauch et al., 2018; Sbarra et al., 2012) and when rumination prevents them from sleeping well (e.g., Kollmann et al., 2019; Murnieks et al., 2019; Neff & Vonk, 2009).”