The downside of being ‘up’: entrepreneurs' dispositional positive affect and firm performance

By Robert A. Baron, Jintong Tang, Keith M. Hmieleski. 2011

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology

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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, unknown): “Our findings also contribute to the upper echelons literature regarding whether the characteristics, skills, motives, and goals of founding CEOs are related to the performance of their firms (Baron, Tang, and Hmieleski, 2011; Hambrick, 2007; Gartner, 1989; Staw, 1991).”
Dispositional Positive and Negative Affect and Self-Employment Transitions: The Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction (2019, unknown): “Therefore, consistent with prior theorizing in the literature (e.g., Baron, 2008; Baron et al., 2011; Baron, Hmieleski, & Henry, 2012; Delgado-García et al., 2015), we study PA and NA as separate constructs.”
Upsides to Dark and Downsides to Bright Personality: A Multidomain Review and Future Research Agenda (2018, background): “Likewise, both Baron, Hmieleski, and Henry (2012) and Baron, Tang, and Hmieleski (2011) discussed the potential benefits and costs of positive affect, whereas Baron, Mueller, and Wolfe (2016) argue that high levels of self-efficacy may cause entrepreneurs to set unattainable goals.”
Beyond Affective Valence: Untangling Valence and Activation Influences on Opportunity Identification (2015, background): “In entrepreneurship research, effects of both state and dispositional affect have been theorized and found (Baron et al., 2011, 2012; Foo et al., 2009; Hayton & Cholakova, 2012).”
Entrepreneurs' dispositional positive affect: The potential benefits – and potential costs – of being “up” (2012, background): “Recent evidence indicates that entrepreneurs are very high in DPA—higher than all other tested groups (Baron et al., 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).”
Affect spin, entrepreneurs' well-being, and venture goal progress: The moderating role of goal orientation (2017, background): “…recognition (Hayton and Cholakova, 2012; Welpe et al., 2012), risk perceptions (Foo, 2011), goals and satisfaction with business (Delgado-García et al., 2012), team relationship conflict (Breugst and Shepherd, 2015), venture effort (Foo et al., 2009), and firm performance (Baron et al., 2011).”
Entrepreneurs’ Improvisational Behavior and Firm Performance: A Study of Dispositional and Environmental Moderators (2013, background): “These findings reassert the importance of upper echelons with respect to firm performance (Baron, Tang, and Hmieleski, 2011; Hambrick, 2007) and highlight the importance of recent calls to examine both individual and environmental moderating factors underlying such relationships (Baron, Hmieleski,…”
The Schumpeterian entrepreneur: a review of the empirical evidence on the antecedents, behaviour and consequences of innovative entrepreneurship (2017, unknown): “Baron, Tang, and Hmieleski (2011) investigate a sample of 157 US entrepreneurs and show that an entrepreneur’s dispositional characteristics (i.e. interest, excitement, enthusiasm) can positively affect firm performance in terms of product innovations, up to a certain point.”