Baby, I'm addicted! The pleasure-pain pathway that shifts entrepreneurial passion to entrepreneurial addiction: Pivotal role of dopamine

Rai Siddhant Sinha

Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 2022, vol. 18, issue C

Abstract: Passionate entrepreneurs often refer to their ventures as their babies; while we know that passion drives entrepreneurial action, research space is unclear about how entrepreneurial passion leads to addiction. This work takes a reductionist approach to explicate how entrepreneurial passion shifts to entrepreneurial addiction by discussing the pleasure-pain pathway that dopamine governs. Such an approach unravels how in a relentless pursuit of pleasure, an individual chases entrepreneurship because they are passionate about it but ends up being addicted to it. Besides contributing to entrepreneurship theory and practice, I discuss several future directions embedded in neuroentrepreneurship.

Keywords: Entrepreneurial passion; Entrepreneurial addiction; Dopamine; Neuroentrepreneurship; Dopamine theory of addiction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbvi.2022.e00340

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