Job burnout and work engagement in entrepreneurs: How the psychological utility of entrepreneurship drives healthy engagement

Martin  Obschonka; Ignacio Pavez; Teemu Kautonen; Ewald Kibler; Katariina Salmela-Aro; Joakim Wincent

doi:10.1016/j.jbusvent.2022.106272

Job burnout and work engagement in entrepreneurs: How the psychological utility of entrepreneurship drives healthy engagement

Martin Obschonka^*, Ignacio Pavez, Teemu Kautonen, Ewald Kibler , Katariina Salmela-Aro, Joakim Wincent

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Entrepreneurship, Management and Organisation, Helsinki

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Abstract

What is the real value of entrepreneurship? We propose a framework of psychological utility by integrating Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) theory with a recovery approach from a personal agency perspective. We hypothesize that personal agency together with the positive JD-R pattern of entrepreneurship generates outstanding psychological utility, which maintains and rewards a healthy, strong work engagement that spills over to off-work time. This benefits entrepreneurs, but also their businesses reliant on strong work engagement that avoids burnout. We validate our framework by means of panel data comprising four waves (348 entrepreneurs and 1002 employees), where we also analyze different types of entrepreneurs.

Original language	English
Article number	106272
Peer-reviewed scientific journal	Journal of Business Venturing
Volume	38
Issue number	2
ISSN	0883-9026
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2022.106272
Publication status	Published - 13.12.2022
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article - refereed

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512 Business and Management
entrepreneurship
psychological utility
well-being
job burnout
work engagement
work reccovery
job demands
job resources
psychological capital
solo entrepreneurs

UN SDGs

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