Is passion contagious? The transference of entrepreneurial passion to employees

By Melissa S. Cardon. 2008

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Subfields: Demography, Management of Technology and Innovation, Social Psychology

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Environmentally specific transformational leadership and team pro-environmental behaviors: The roles of pro-environmental goal clarity, pro-environmental harmonious passion, and power distance (2020, background): “When people feel passionate about the environment, they tend to communicate this passion to others and facilitate the contagion of their passion (Cardon, 2008).”
THE IMPACT OF PERCEIVED ENTREPRENEURIAL PASSION ON ANGEL INVESTING (2009, methodology): “Therefore we need to use recently developed measures of the extent to which entrepreneur really feel or experience passion (Cardon, 2008), as well as what this passion is focused on (Cardon et al, 2009) in order to truly understand the nuanced relationships between passion that is felt, displayed,…”
“I Put in Effort, Therefore I Am Passionate”: Investigating the Path from Effort to Passion in Entrepreneurship (2014, background): “Cardon (2008) has noted that short-term emotions may influence the entrepreneurs’ current state, but less so the entrepreneurs’ general entrepreneurial passion.”
Greening organizations through leaders' influence on employees' pro-environmental behaviors (2013, background): “…leaders evoke emotions in followers (Dasborough & Ashkanasy, 2002) and (ii) that transformational leadership behaviors can spark employee passion (Cardon, 2008), we suggest that each of the four transformational leadership behaviors is especially suited to evoking employees’ harmonious passion…”
“Work is my passion”: The different affective, behavioural, and cognitive consequences of harmonious and obsessive passion toward work (2011, background): “While some research has underscored passion for work as an important and positive motivational force (Baum & Locke, 2004; Baum et al., 1998, 2001; Cardon, 2008; Cardon et al., 2005), the dualistic model of passion broadens our understanding of passion by identifying two ways in which passion can be…”
The Role of Affect in the Creation and Intentional Pursuit of Entrepreneurial Ideas (2012, background): “For example, recent studies have examined the significance of affective states for entrepreneurial motivation (e.g., Cardon, 2008; Cardon, Wincent, Singh, & Drnovsek, 2009; Cardon, Zietsma, Saparito, Matherne, & Davis, 2005; Foo, Uy, & Baron, 2009), and differences with respect to emotional…”
Persuasion in crowdfunding: An elaboration likelihood model of crowdfunding performance (2017, background): “When leaders connect “goals to a ‘dream’ or a utopian ideal vision of a better future” (Shamir et al., 1993: 585), they personalize their ventures and convey their own enthusiasm and excitement that can serve to engender a positive affective response among funders (e.g., Cardon, 2008).”
Founder passion, neural engagement and informal investor interest in startup pitches: An fMRI study (2020, background): “Positive affect is persuasive (Hatfield et al., 1993), leading entrepreneurs displaying such emotions to be better able to generate positive responses from others (Baron, 2008; Cardon, 2008; Li et al., 2017).”
Unraveling the “passion orchestra” in academia (2016, background): “…al., 2014), creativity and persistence (Cardon and Kirk, 2015; Cardon et al., 2013), recruitment and motivation of employees (Breugst et al., 2012; Cardon, 2008), funding success (Chen et al., 2009; Mitteness et al., 2012; Sudek, 2006), financial performance (Ho and Pollack, 2014), and new…”
The dualistic regulatory effect of passion on the relationship between fear of failure and negative affect: Insights from facial expression analysis (2020, background): “While many studies have connected entrepreneurs' passion to positive affect (e.g., Cardon, 2008; Cardon et al., 2009), our theorizing and empirical findings indicate that passion also plays an important role in how entrepreneurs' fear of failure impacts their experience of negative affect while…”
A Tale of Passion: Linking Job Passion and Cognitive Engagement to Employee Work Performance (2011, neutral): “Relatedly, while a relatively new stream of research has introduced the concept of entrepreneurial passion in the context of entrepreneurship, these developments have thus far been theoretical, with empirical tests yet to follow (Cardon, 2008; Cardon, Wincent, & Singh, 2009; Cardon, Zietsma, Saparit”
Beyond Affective Valence: Untangling Valence and Activation Influences on Opportunity Identification (2015, background): “…activated affect like passion has been shown to influence opportunity evaluation among angel investors (Mitteness, Sudek, & Cardon, 2012), teamwork among entrepreneurs (Drnovsek, Cardon, & Murnieks, 2009), and commitment among the individuals working in entrepreneurial ventures (Cardon, 2008).”