Measuring addiction to entrepreneurship

April J. Spivack; Alexander McKelvie

doi:10.1016/j.jbvi.2020.e00212

Measuring addiction to entrepreneurship

April J. Spivack^*, Alexander McKelvie

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Entrepreneurship, Management and Organisation, Helsinki

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Abstract

We develop and validate a measure of entrepreneurship addiction. Inspired by earlier research on entrepreneurship addiction, we develop multi-item scales to measure six underlying criteria (i.e., obsessive thoughts, withdrawal/engagement, self-worth, tolerance, neglect, and negative outcomes). Via three studies, we refine the measure and investigate its dimensional structure. We also provide estimates of prevalence and identify some antecedents of entrepreneurship addiction. The validated measure helps illuminate entrepreneurship addiction’s role in some “dark side” implications of entrepreneurship.

Original language	English
Article number	e00212
Peer-reviewed scientific journal	Journal of Business Venturing Insights
Volume	15
ISSN	2352-6734
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbvi.2020.e00212
Publication status	Published - 06.2021
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article - refereed

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512 Business and Management
Addiction
Scale
Entrepreneurship
Measure validation

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