The Emotions and Emotionality of Entrepreneurship

In his thought-provoking book, Chihmao Hsieh brings together how emotions and emotionality relate to the entrepreneurship process and journey, at distinct stages, across a variety of contexts, and at different levels of analysis. Thoroughly reviewing decades of scholarly research, he covers the theories underlying entrepreneurial emotion and pores over the influence of affect on venture creation and development. Hsieh inspects the roles and implications of emotions during opportunity formation, opportunity exploitation, entrepreneurial action, performance, and exit, going beyond the typical view that emotional intelligence, emotion regulation, and resilience alone suffice. Besides addressing topics of passion and emotional exhaustion, the chapters also rigorously lay out the practical ‘lessons learned’ for entrepreneurs in relation to teamwork, leadership and the family context. The last part of the book depicts how emotionality differentially impacts stakeholder management, social venturing and both regional and country-level business activity. The Emotions and Emotionality of Entrepreneurship offers sophisticated insight which can benefit entrepreneurs, policymakers, and NGO directors alike. It also serves as a crucial read for scholars and students of entrepreneurship, organizational behavior, and management.

Table of Contents:
Contents Preface PART I SETTING THE STAGE 1 What, most basically, is entrepreneurship? 2 Emotions and the emotional roller coaster of entrepreneurship 3 Individual-level attributes and entrepreneurial emotion PART II THE EMOTIONS INVOLVED IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROCESS 4 Using emotions to guide discovery, creation, and evaluation of opportunity 5 Goals, plans, and luck 6 Emotions for entrepreneurial action, exploitation, and performance 7 Entrepreneurial exit and emotions PART III The entrepreneur’s ongoing emotions 8 Entrepreneurship and passion 9 Entrepreneurship amid stress, negative emotion, and burnout PART IV The entrepreneur’s sociopsychological experience with emotions 10 Emotionality of entrepreneurship teamwork and its leadership 11 Emotion and emotionality in family-related entrepreneurship contexts 12 Emotionality and the management of external stakeholders 13 Emotion and the special case of social entrepreneurship 14 Characterizing the emotionality of environments for entrepreneurship in and across communities, regions, and countries PART V Wrapping up 15 Epilogue References Index

About the Author :
Chihmao Hsieh, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship, and Founding Director of the Center for Global Entrepreneurship, SUNY Korea

Review :
‘Emotions are influential in entrepreneurship. Being able to investigate the issues through multiple lenses is so important and too often neglected. Hsieh frames the challenge in terms of “emotionality”, nudging our thinking in a productive direction. An important read for entrepreneurs, policymakers, and scholars alike.’