ADHD symptoms, entrepreneurial passion, and entrepreneurial performance
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ADHD symptoms, entrepreneurial passion, and entrepreneurial performance Isabella Hatak & Manling Chang & Rainer Harms & Johan Wiklund
Accepted: 6 August 2020 # The Author(s) 2020
Abstract Recent studies have substantially enhanced our understanding of attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in entrepreneurship—articulating the theoretical relevance of ADHD-type traits in entrepreneurship and confirming the positive linkages between ADHD symptoms/diagnosis and entrepreneurial intentions and behavior. However, how and why some people with ADHD symptoms run successful ventures, while other entrepreneurs fail to perform well, is still not well established. Our study builds on a Gestalt perspective that integrates person– environment fit and broaden-and-build theorizing, and I. Hatak (*) Swiss Research Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, University of St. Gallen, Dufourstrasse 40a, 9000 St. Gallen, Switzerland e-mail: [email protected] M. Chang Department of Business Administration, National Chung Hsing University, 402, No. 250 Kuo Kuang Road, Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China e-mail: [email protected] R. Harms NIKOS – Netherlands Institute of Knowledge-Intensive Entrepreneurship, University of Twente, Postbus 217, 7500
proposes that strong positive emotions enable entrepreneurs with ADHD symptoms (at the subclinical level) to mitigate/ reinforce the effect of ADHD’s trait-specific weaknesses/ strengths to achieve entrepreneurial performance. Relying on fuzzy-set methodology, our findings indicate that for entrepreneurs with ADHD symptoms, entrepreneurial performance occurs when they simultaneously experience passion for founding and developing. This passion configuration is unique to successful ADHD-type entrepreneurs. As such, this study offers novel theoretical and empirical insights as well as implications for practitioners. AE Enschede, The Netherlands e-mail: [email protected] R. Harms Higher School of Economics, Research Laboratory for Science and Technology Studies, 20 Myasnitskaya ulitsa, Moscow 101000, Russia J. Wiklund Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University, 721 University Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13244-2450, USA e-mail: [email protected]
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Plain English Summary Do people with ADHD perform well in entrepreneurship? Our research shows how ADHD symptoms relate to entrepreneurial performance finding that passion is important. Entrepreneurs who are highly and thereby ambidextrously passionate for growing their businesses and for founding activities while lacking intense positive feelings for coming up with new ideas can benefit from ADHD. These results are important for people with ADHD and their loved ones. Keywords Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder . ADHD . Entrepreneurial performance . Entrepreneurial passion . Entrepreneurship . fsQCA JEL classification L26
1 Introduction Scholarly interest in the potential functionality of mental health conditions in entrepreneurship (Wiklund et al. 2018) and particularly the neurodevelopmental condit
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