Passion for what? Expanding the domains of entrepreneurial passion☆
By Melissa S. Cardon, M. Glauser, Charles Y. Murnieks. 2017
267 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Entrepreneurial passion helps coordinate cognition and behavior of entrepreneurs, providing the fire that fuels innovation, persistence, and ultimate success. However, our knowledge of the sources of passion is limited and focuses primarily on activities predetermined by scholars, rather than those generated by entrepreneurs themselves. Using a phenomenological approach, we conduct an inductive qualitative study of 80 entrepreneurs and analyze their oral histories to explore the sources of entrepreneurial passion as described by entrepreneurs. Our discovery process suggests six major sources of entrepreneurial passion: passion for growth, passion for people, passion for the product or service, passion for inventing, passion for competition, and passion for a social cause. This extends prior research that focuses on passion toward a more limited range of activities.
Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management
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In Management of Technology and Innovation
- Jeffery S. McMullen
- M. Obschonka
- Benjamin J. Warnick
- Alexander Newman
- Charles Y. Murnieks
- Sylvia Hubner
- Matthias Baum
- Gemma Garima Chandan
In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
- Jeffery S. McMullen
- Benjamin J. Warnick
- M. Obschonka
- Alexander Newman
- Matthias Baum
- Sylvia Hubner
- Gemma Garima Chandan
- Michael Frese
Citations in the corpus
- Passion for entrepreneurship or passion for the product? A conjoint analysis of angel and VC decision-making (2018, background): “Building on recent research showing that there are different sources of passion (Curran et al., 2015; Huyghe et al., 2016; Cardon et al., 2017a), we first determine whether investors discriminate between perceptions of entrepreneurs' passion for their product or service (or product passion) and…”
- Contagion of Entrepreneurial Passion: Effects on Employee Outcomes (2020, background): “Furthermore, as it has recently been theorized that passion exists on the team level (Cardon et al., 2017b), more research is necessary to show how employees react when they observe different salient identities among top- management team members.”
- Entrepreneurial Passion: A Review, Synthesis, and Agenda for Future Research (2019, background): “Although recent conceptual work (Cardon et al., 2017a) has introduced the concept of team entrepreneurial passion, limited empirical research has examined the factors which predict team entrepreneurial passion or examined its link to entrepreneurial outcomes.”