Measuring entrepreneurial passion: Conceptual foundations and scale validation

By Melissa S. Cardon, Denis A. Grégoire, C. Stevens, Pankaj C. Patel. 2013

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Management of Technology and Innovation, Social Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

Entrepreneurial Passion as Mediator of the Self–Efficacy to Persistence Relationship (2015, methodology): “We explore the potential for mediation of passion for inventing, passion for founding, and passion for developing firms, three specific domains of the overall construct of entrepreneurial passion (Cardon et al., 2009, 2013).”
Recognizing Opportunities across Campus: The Effects of Cognitive Training and Entrepreneurial Passion on the Business Opportunity Prototype (2018, background): “Thus, entrepreneurial passion is theoretically defined and measured along these two dimensions: intense positive feelings and identity centrality, which are expressed in three role identities: inventing, founding, and developing (Cardon et al. 2012).”
Passion and grit: An exploration of the pathways leading to venture success (2017, background): “Indeed, entrepreneurship researchers have long sought to understand the factors driving entrepreneurs to pursue venture success over time and through hardship (Cardon et al., 2013).”
When passion fades: disentangling the temporal dynamics of entrepreneurial passion for founding (2016, methodology): “Passion also relates positively to entrepreneurs’ persistence and creativity (Cardon et al., 2013), to the extent to which entrepreneurs are cognitively immersed in their entrepreneurial activities (Cardon et al.”
Self Efficacy, Self Personality and Self Confidence on Entrepreneurial Intention: Study on Young Enterprises (2019, background): “Cardon et al. (2013) argued that entrepreneurship is the transfer of resources, from low output productivity to high output and productivity.”
Passion Isn't Always a Good Thing: Examining Entrepreneurs' Network Centrality and Financial Performance with a Dualistic Model of Passion (2014, neutral): “…adopted a unidimensional perspective of passion as a positive affect (e.g., Baum and Locke, 2004) or categorized entrepreneurial passion into its various entrepreneurial roles (e.g., Cardon et al., 2013), without taking into account how the entrepreneur internalizes the role into his/her identity.”
Passion for what? Expanding the domains of entrepreneurial passion☆ (2017, background): “…scales typically gauge both the strength of one's positive feelings and the extent to which that particular activity is central to one's identity (Cardon et al., 2013), or the extent to which that activity is internalized harmoniously and obsessively into one's self-concept (Vallerand et al.,…”
The Role of Entrepreneurial Passion and Creativity in Developing Entrepreneurial Intentions: Insights from American Homebrewers (2017, background): “Entrepreneurial passion constitutes a distinctive emotion that is common among entrepreneurs (Cardon et al. 2013).”