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Exploring creative entrepreneurs’ happiness: cognitive style, guanxi and creativity

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Traditional economic theories generally assume that entrepreneurs’ satisfaction is largely affected by financial performance of their entrepreneurial business, while recent research suggests that entrepreneurs’ happiness is more important than financial success. Drawing upon the theories of entrepreneurial cognition and social networks, we develop a model to explore the factors influencing entrepreneurs’ happiness. A total of 270 creative entrepreneurs in Taiwan’s creative industries are studied. Results show that entrepreneurs’ creating cognitive style has a positive effect on both entrepreneurs’ creativity and firm creativity, but entrepreneurs’ planning cognitive style has a negative effect. Findings indicate that entrepreneurs with strong family ties and business ties have high level of individual creativity and firm creativity, which then have a positive influence on entrepreneurs’ happiness.

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Titel: Exploring creative entrepreneurs’ happiness: cognitive style, guanxi and creativity
verfasst von: Ming-Huei Chen
Yu-Yu Chang
Yin-Chen Lin
Publikationsdatum: 02.01.2018
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal / Ausgabe 4/2018
Print ISSN: 1554-7191
Elektronische ISSN: 1555-1938
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11365-017-0490-3

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