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The Profits and Perils of Passion in Entrepreneurship
Stoking the Fires and Banking the Coals
9781788973397 Edward Elgar Publishing
The Profits and Perils of Passion in Entrepreneurship provides an overview of current knowledge and highlights opportunities ripe for additional investigation. This state-of-the-art book also delivers essential guidelines for scholars on how to study entrepreneurial passion in a rigorous way.
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The Profits and Perils of Passion in Entrepreneurship provides an overview of current knowledge and highlights opportunities ripe for additional investigation. This state-of-the-art book also delivers essential guidelines for scholars on how to study entrepreneurial passion in a rigorous way.
Melissa S. Cardon and Charles Y. Murnieks provide a critical review of the knowledge accumulated to date about passion in entrepreneurship, discussing developments and debates about conceptual definitions, levels and focus of analysis, and methodological approaches. This includes the integration of different theories with an explanation of their commonalities and key distinctions. Examining the outcomes and antecedents of passion, chapters present theoretical arguments and empirical findings and explore future research questions for the topic.
Scholars and students of entrepreneurship will find this book to be a comprehensive overview of the topic. Providing an accessible understanding of academic research, this book will also be a useful resource for practicing entrepreneurs and those who seek to support them.
Melissa S. Cardon and Charles Y. Murnieks provide a critical review of the knowledge accumulated to date about passion in entrepreneurship, discussing developments and debates about conceptual definitions, levels and focus of analysis, and methodological approaches. This includes the integration of different theories with an explanation of their commonalities and key distinctions. Examining the outcomes and antecedents of passion, chapters present theoretical arguments and empirical findings and explore future research questions for the topic.
Scholars and students of entrepreneurship will find this book to be a comprehensive overview of the topic. Providing an accessible understanding of academic research, this book will also be a useful resource for practicing entrepreneurs and those who seek to support them.
Critical Acclaim
‘... this book is genuinely engaging, and contributes significantly towards promoting and furthering research into passion and its role in guiding and driving the career choices and. business thinking and activities of entrepreneurs.’
– Keith Jackson, Asia Pacific Business Review
‘The Profits and Perils of Passion in Entrepreneurship is an important read for anyone interested in the deeper driving motivations of entrepreneurs. The critical elements concerning entrepreneurial passion exude from Melissa S. Cardon and Charles Y. Murnieks – two of the most prominent world-class experts on this concept. This book is a thorough research-based work of scholarship and a must-have for any scholar seeking to understand one of the most important components of the entrepreneurial mindset.’
– Donald F. Kuratko, Indiana University, US
– Keith Jackson, Asia Pacific Business Review
‘The Profits and Perils of Passion in Entrepreneurship is an important read for anyone interested in the deeper driving motivations of entrepreneurs. The critical elements concerning entrepreneurial passion exude from Melissa S. Cardon and Charles Y. Murnieks – two of the most prominent world-class experts on this concept. This book is a thorough research-based work of scholarship and a must-have for any scholar seeking to understand one of the most important components of the entrepreneurial mindset.’
– Donald F. Kuratko, Indiana University, US
Contents
Contents: Introduction to passion in entrepreneurship 2. Passion of entrepreneurs: Conceptual underpinnings and distinctions 3. Different potential targets of entrepreneurial passion 4. The profits and perils that can arise from entrepreneurial passion 5. Stoking the fires of entrepreneurial passion through engagement, education, and contagion 6. Passions of entrepreneurs in teams 7. Opportunities for future research on passion and entrepreneurship 8. Concluding thoughts on passion and entrepreneurship Index
