Entrepreneurs’ Life Satisfaction Built on Satisfaction with Job and Work–Family Balance: Embedded in Society in China, Finland, and Sweden

Junguang Gao, Tao Chen, Thomas Schøtt and Fuzhen Gu
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Junguang Gao: Department of Business Management, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing 100048, China
Tao Chen: Department of Business Management, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing 100048, China
Thomas Schøtt: Department of Entrepreneurship and Relationship Management, University of Southern Denmark, 6000 Kolding, Denmark
Fuzhen Gu: Department of Business Administration, Panzhihua University, Panzhihua 617000, China

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 9, 1-21

Abstract: Entrepreneurs are known to be more satisfied than employees, with their life satisfaction being built on their satisfaction with their job and work–family balance. We argue that effects differ among societies, drawing on theories about self-determination and culture. Representative samples of 1276 entrepreneurs and 3821 employees in traditional China and modern Finland and Sweden were surveyed by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), which is amenable to multivariate analyses. The effects of occupation upon satisfaction were found to differ among the societies, consistent with their cultural differences. These findings contribute to contextualizing theories about satisfaction being embedded in society and culture.

Keywords: life satisfaction; job satisfaction; work–family balance satisfaction; entrepreneurs; employees; culture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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