The Role of Affect in the Entrepreneurial Process

By Robert A. Baron. 2008

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

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Is Stress Worth it? Stress‐Related Health and Wealth Trade‐Offs for Entrepreneurs (2015, background): “We focus on one specific dispositional resource, one’s level of dispositional positive affect, which has been theoretically argued to have important implications for entrepreneurial stress management (Baron, 2008).”
Governance and Trust in Family Firms: An Introduction (2010, background): “Emotions are expected to influence a variety of entrepreneurial cognitions that are linked to opportunity recognition, creativity, perceptions of the environment, and heuristics (Baron, 2008; Mitchell et al.). Drawing from social capital theory, Morris and colleagues argue that the family can be a s”
Managing the Unknowable (2015, background): “Understanding Intuition These studies also contribute to what has been called the ‘‘affective turn’’ in entrepreneurship (e.g., Baron, 2008; Cardon et al., 2009; Chen, Yao, and Kotha, 2009).”
The Study of Bias in Entrepreneurship (2017, background): “, Baron, 2007; Mackie & Worth, 1989; Park & Banaji, 2000), and thus, research on entrepreneurial behavior and decision making should not separate cognition from affect, another emerging stream of research in entrepreneurship (Baron, 2008; Cardon et al., 2012; Foo, 2011; Foo, Uy, & Baron 2009; Shephe”
Is passion contagious? The transference of entrepreneurial passion to employees (2008, background): “For example, positive emotion may enhance entrepreneurial creativity, which can aid in recognition of new opportunities (Baron, 2008), and entrepreneurs that are passionate for their ventures may be more creative and persistent, and may becomemore absorbed in venture-related activities, which…”
Funders' positive affective reactions to entrepreneurs' crowdfunding pitches: The influence of perceived product creativity and entrepreneurial passion (2017, background): “For these reasons, creative products (i.e., those that are deemed to be both novel and meaningful; Andrews and Smith, 1996) have the potential to elicit positive affective reactions in those who view them (Algoe and Haidt, 2009; Baron, 2008).”
Knowledge Internalization and Product Development in Family Firms: When Relational and Affective Factors Matter (2016, background): “These insights are leveraged by entrepreneurship scholars to suggest that affective states may significantly determine creative outcomes within organizations (Amabile, Barsade, Mueller, & Staw, 2005; Baron, 2008).”
Understanding, differentiating, and measuring opportunity recognition and opportunity exploitation (2017, neutral): “Positive affect influences how information is retained and processed and has been found to play a role in alertness and opportunity recognition, and its consequences, such as the acquisition of essential financial and human resources, or innovation (Baron, 2008):”
Entrepreneurial Passion as Mediator of the Self–Efficacy to Persistence Relationship (2015, background): “Interestingly, more recent research suggests that another factor impacting persistence may be positive affect (Baron, 2008) and in particular entrepreneurial passion (Cardon, Wincent, Singh, & Drnovsek, 2009).”
THE IMPACT OF PERCEIVED ENTREPRENEURIAL PASSION ON ANGEL INVESTING (2009, background): “High levels of displayed positive affect can help entrepreneurs expand their social networks and be more persuasive, which combined can increase their social and financial capital (Baron, 2008).”
Social support timing and persistence in nascent entrepreneurship: exploring when instrumental and emotional support is most effective (2017, background): “Emotional support impacts entrepreneurship by promoting optimism, supporting creativity, and enabling individuals to deal with stress (Baron 2008).”
When does entrepreneurial self-efficacy enhance versus reduce firm performance? (2008, background): “Understanding these mechanisms is a key task for the fi eld of entrepreneurship, which has increasingly recognized the important role of individual entrepreneurs in fi rm creation and development (e.g., Baron, 2007, 2008).”