Entrepreneurial Well being - The Payoff Structure of Business Creation

Over the last several decades, well-being or mental health, beyond the mere absence of mental illness, has become a central concern occupying the minds and interests of researchers, organizations, practitioners, and policy-makers working in various contexts across the globe. Among other things, this is the result of recurring observations that well-being is positively asso-ciated with a wide spectrum of human activities and conditions.
​In recent years, interest in well-being has found a welcoming home in management and entrepreneurship studies. Notable efforts to link phe-nomena related to well-being with entrepreneurship are Baron’s work on positive affect in entrepreneurship (Baron, 2008), Cardon and colleagues’ work on entrepreneurial passion (Cardon, Wincent, Singh, & Drnovsek, 2009), and labor and happiness economists’ work on the link between self-employment and work and life satisfaction

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Dissertation for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Ph.D., in Business Administration Stockholm School of Economics, 2015 - by Nadav Shir