Entrepreneurs’ deep aspirations and meaningful work

Sandrine Frémeaux and François Henry

Revue de l'Entrepreneuriat, 2023, vol. 22, issue 1, 29-56

Abstract: To address the question of how the fulfillment of entrepreneurs’ deepest desires can help them to give meaning to their activity, we examined fifty-five semi-structured interviews with entrepreneurs. We show that the achievement of their deep aspirations can prove to be a resource or, on the contrary, a hindrance to the construction of meaning. Our study thus reveals that, to avoid a desire turning into an idealistic, naive, exhausting, or constraining quest, entrepreneurs may seek a balance between objectivization and subjectivization of meaningful work.

Keywords: aspirations; entrepreneurship; eudemonia; meaningful work; meaningfulness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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