Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication, Department of
Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
2010
Abstract
An emerging, and very promising, stream of research on entrepreneurs pertains to the role of affect -- feelings and emotions -- in enhancing the potential success of entrepreneurial ventures. For example, research indicates that positive emotions may enhance entrepreneurial creativity, including opportunity recognition (Baron, 2008). Additionally, entrepreneurs who display passion -- positive, intense feelings -- about their ventures tend to be more successful than those who do not display passion (Baum & Locke, 2004). Positive emotions also influence an entrepreneur's ability to turn past experiences into present solutions through heuristic processing (Baron, 2008), and to deal effectively with the persistent stress (Carver & Scheier, 2001) that often plagues entrepreneurs.
Comments
Published in Leadership in Agriculture 2:1 (January-June 2010), pp. 54-61. Copyright 2010 Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA). http://www.iica.int Used by permission.