Is entrepreneurship healthy or unhealthy? Contemporary perspectives on health and well-being in entrepreneurial contexts
The relationship between work and employee health has long been a topic of scholarly interest (Bliese et al., 2017; Fritz & Sonnentag, 2006; Spector et al., 2002). A recent meta-analysis emphasizes ways in which organizational leaders must consider sustaining the human capital that makes organizational work possible (Barnes et al., 2023). Although considerable knowledge has been gained regarding how organizational occupations can influence an individual’s personal health experiences and outcomes, recent evidence highlights the unique role that entrepreneurship can play in both enhancing and undermining an individual’s health and well-being (e.g., Cardon & Arwine, 2023; Nikolaev et al., 2023; Stephan et al., 2023; Waldman et al., 2023; Wiklund et al., 2019; Williamson et al., 2021). This role may be difficult to identify as a result of selection effects (Rietveld et al., 2015). To that end, an entrepreneur’s health and well-being is broadly relevant to nearly every aspect of entrepreneurship, ranging from how individuals motivate themselves to pursue entrepreneurial endeavours (Hahn et al., 2012) to how they cope with the stresses and pressures inherent in entrepreneurial activities (Nikolaev et al., 2023). There has been a rapid increase in research on entrepreneurial health and well-being over the last five years, which was further accelerated by the Covid pandemic.
Academic research also calls to advance knowledge following a salutogenic (vs) pathogenic approach (Stephan et al., 2023; Torrès & Thurik. 2019), making the case for promoting and protecting positive mental health to prevent mental illness and to improve overall psychosocial functioning. Along these lines, research can further explore the development of salutogenic outcomes like eudaimonic well-being and individual and organizational resilience. Likewise, research can investigate steps that avoid pathogenic outcomes, such as the three R’s of recovery interventions (Respite, Reappraisal, and Regimen; Williamson et al., 2021).
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