Entrepreneurial Passion as Mediator of the Self–Efficacy to Persistence Relationship

By Melissa S. Cardon, Colleen P. Kirk. 2015

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Passion for what? Expanding the domains of entrepreneurial passion☆ (2017, background): “…increases entrepreneurs’ dedication and commitment to their ventures, their persistence in pursuing venture-related goals and activities, and their ability to get and stay fully engaged in their actions (Cardon et al., 2009; Cardon and Kirk, 2015; Drnovsek et al., 2016; Vallerand et al., 2003).”
The Pivot: How Founders Respond to Feedback through Idea and Identity Work (2017, background): “…stemming from identity theory surfaced a set of roles such as “founder,” “inventor,” and “developer” that have been used to empirically examine entrepreneurs’ passion at various stages of organizational formation (Cardon, Gregoire, Stevens, & Patel, 2013; Cardon & Kirk, 2015; Cardon et al., 2009).”
The Relationship between Entrepreneurial Self‐Efficacy and Firm Performance: A Meta‐Analysis of Main and Moderator Effects* (2017, background): “For example, scholars argue that entrepreneurial passion has a moderating effect on the relationship between ESE and entrepreneurial persistence and entrepreneurial performance (Cardon and Kirk 2013; Shane, Locke, and Collins 2003).”
Entrepreneurial passion and entrepreneurial intention: the role of social support and entrepreneurial self-efficacy (2020, background): “Cardon and Kirk (2015) found that when entrepreneurs are confident in their abilities to perform the tasks necessary for the creation of a new venture, they are more likely to perform the task and to continue attempting to succeed in the task.”
Betting on the Coachable Entrepreneur: Signaling and Social Exchange in Entrepreneurial Pitches (2018, background): “Examples of interpersonal signals include entrepreneurial passion (Cardon & Kirk, 2015) and personal commitment to the venture (Busenitz et al., 2005).1 Experienced investors often indicate these are the more important type of signal (Huang & Pearce, 2015).”
Motivational Cues and Angel Investing: Interactions among Enthusiasm, Preparedness, and Commitment (2017, background): “…to entrepreneurs (1) spending more time working on their venture (Murnieks, Mosakowski, & Cardon, 2012), (2) persisting longer through obstacles (Cardon & Kirk, 2015), and (3) ultimately experiencing more firm growth (Drnovsek, Cardon, & Patel, 2016) than they would if they did not have passion.”
Institutional support and women’s entrepreneurial self-efficacy (2017, background): “…of such new venture activity from the entrepreneurship literature include venture growth (Baum and Locke, 2004; Baum et al., 2001), persistence (Cardon and Kirk, 2015), opportunity confidence (Dimov, 2010), entrepreneurial intentions (Bullough et al., 2014) and entrepreneurial behavior…”
The Impact of Entrepreneurial Passion on the Entrepreneurial Intention; Moderating Impact of Perception of University Support (2021, background): “Passion is an observable phenomenon in the business process, and the lack of passion leads to the disconnection of entrepreneurs, which leads to the collapse of entrepreneurship (Cardon and Kirk 2015).”
Personality traits and theory of planned behavior comparison of entrepreneurial intentions between an emerging economy and a developing country (2019, background): “Other authors define it as that person must define the ease or difficulty in performing the entrepreneurial behavior (Cardon and Kirk, 2015; Wilson et al., 2007; Zhao et al., 2005).”
When passion fades: disentangling the temporal dynamics of entrepreneurial passion for founding (2016, background): “tial to the conceptualization and measurement of entrepreneurial passion (Cardon and Kirk, 2015; Cardon et al., 2009, 2013).”
Entrepreneurial passion diversity in new venture teams: An empirical examination of short- and long-term performance implications (2020, background): “For example, individual entrepreneurial passion has been empirically found to enhance performance in terms of functional individual behaviors such as persistence (Cardon and Kirk, 2015), tenacity (Murnieks et al.”
Social support timing and persistence in nascent entrepreneurship: exploring when instrumental and emotional support is most effective (2017, background): “Thus, we expect the impact of emotional support on firm emergence through more favorable opportunity appraisal (Williams and Wood 2015), reinforced entrepreneurial identity (Hoang and Gimeno 2010) and increased passion (Cardon and Kirk 2015), to be stronger for those that have completed fewer gestat”