Entrepreneurship and Health: an Existential Perspective

Olivier Torrès, Florence Guiliani and Roy Thurik

Revue de l'Entrepreneuriat, 2022, vol. Hors Série 2, issue HS2, 11-32

Abstract: A field is emerging at the interface between research into entrepreneurship, psychology, biology, and mental and physical health. This special issue contributes to this emergence in two ways: first, it adds a philosophical perspective, i.e., that of existentialism. Existentialism is a much-neglected view of entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurs (small business founder/owners/managers) tend to view their business as the centre of their existence. Three concepts will be introduced to show the link between existentialism and mental and physical health: subordination, suffering and salutogenesis. Second, we will summarize the six articles of the present special issue that address the links between physiological states, mental health, well-being, mental disorders and psychiatric symptoms on the one hand and entrepreneurship on the other. They are based on conceptual and empirical research examining these relationships in different countries and entrepreneurial contexts.

Keywords: entrepreneurship; health; existentialism; subordination; suffering; salutogenesis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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