Entrepreneurs' dispositional positive affect: The potential benefits – and potential costs – of being “up”

By Robert A. Baron, Keith M. Hmieleski, Rebecca A. Henry. 2012

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A Review of Multilevel Regulatory Focus in Organizations (2015, background): “In fact, they often reject overly optimistic business plans as unrealistic (e.g., Barringer, 2009).”
Keep Calm and Carry On: Emotion Regulation in Entrepreneurs’ Learning from Failure (2018, background): “…many affective dispositions: They are generally known to be highly passionate (Cardon et al., 2012), confident, and optimistic (Koellinger, Minniti, & Schade, 2007), and to have higher dispositional positive affect than the general population (Baron et al., 2012; Baron, Tang, & Hmieleski, 2011).”
Why Create Value for Others? An Exploration of Social Entrepreneurial Motives (2016, background): “Recent studies suggest emotions play a role in entrepreneurs’ experience of entrepreneurship (Morris et al. 2012) and their perceptions of success (Baron, Hmieleski, and Henry 2012), but research to date does not offer empirical evidence of associations between emotions and social entrepreneurial…”
Self-Compassion When Coping With Venture Obstacles: Loving-Kindness Meditation and Entrepreneurial Fear of Failure (2019, background): “Like other positive emotions, at very high levels self- compassion can be expected to interfere with cognition, perception, motivation, and self- regulation to the extent that it may jeopardize sound reasoning and logic (e.g., Baron et al., 2012).”
Integrating Discovery and Creation Perspectives of Entrepreneurial Action: The Relative Roles of Founding CEO Human Capital, Social Capital, and Psychological Capital in Contexts of Risk Versus Uncertainty (2015, background): “Such variables are far from fixed; rather, they can be developed over time and vary in their relevance and impact across situational and/or environmental contexts (Baron, Hmieleski, and Henry, 2012).”
Having a creative day: understanding entrepreneurs’ daily idea generation through a recovery lens (2018, background): “, those with high psychological capital and positive affect) to become entrepreneurs (Baron et al., 2016; Baron et al., 2012).”
Social support timing and persistence in nascent entrepreneurship: exploring when instrumental and emotional support is most effective (2017, background): “This is important because not only does a person’s emotional condition affect their ability to engage in nascent activities but it also influences their ability to effectively and efficiently absorb new information (Baron et al. 2012; Foo et al. 2009; Patzelt and Shepherd 2011).”
From entrepreneurial intentions to actions: Self-control and action-related doubt, fear, and aversion (2015, background): “(2004) show that the effects of self-control on a variety of desired outcomes are linear, whereas Baron and colleagues demonstrate that the beneficial effects of positive affect evaporate beyond a certain optimal point (Baron et al., 2011; Baron et al., 2012).”
Dispositional Positive and Negative Affect and Self-Employment Transitions: The Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction (2019, background): “produce parallel effects in many contexts” (see Baron et al., 2012, p. 313).”
The Dark Triad and Nascent Entrepreneurship: An Examination of Unproductive versus Productive Entrepreneurial Motives (2016, background): “Thus, similar to other double-edged characteristics such as optimism and positive affect (Baron, Hmieleski, and Henry 2012; Baron, Tang and Hmieleski 2011; Hmieleski and Baron 2009) or behavioral disinhibition (Lerner 2016), it is possible that aspects of the dark triad could be positively related…”