Entrepreneurial Passion Across Business and Family: A Paired Study

Abstract

Research on entrepreneurial passion (EP) and firm growth has grown significantly in recent decades. Nevertheless, its implications for other life roles are far less explored. With a paired sample of 208 entrepreneurs and their spouses, this study examines the spillover and crossover effects of EP from entrepreneurship to family and tests the hypotheses through structural equation modelling and bootstrapping analysis. The empirical results indicate that EP positively influences their spouses’ perceptions of family cohesion and commitment to the entrepreneur’s organisation, with the serial mediation effect of work-family enrichment (WFE) and positive crossover transmission. By offering a novel perspective on the dynamic transfer of resources across different domains, the findings contribute to the understanding of entrepreneurs’ intrapersonal and interpersonal emotional involvement, which sheds light on why and how these specific types of passion at work affect their spouses’ functioning at home.

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Entrepreneurial passion work-family enrichment entrepreneurial spouse spillover-crossover

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