Obsessive passion and the venture team: When co-founders join, and when they don't

Yingzhu Fu, Matthias Tietz and Frédéric Delmar
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Yingzhu Fu: Central South University [Changsha]
Matthias Tietz: HSG - University of St.Gallen

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Abstract: We investigate how potential co-founders' perceptions of a founder's obsessive passion (OP) influence the decision to join a venture team. Using a conjoint experiment with a primary sample of 116 founder-entrepreneurs and validating it with an additional sample of 59 founder entrepreneurs, we found that potential co-founders were more likely to join if they perceived that the founder had OP for developing ventures. Potential co-founders were less likely to join if they perceived OP for founding ventures. Further, we found significant interactions between perceived OPs, as well as interactions between perceived OP and potential co-founders' own OP.

Keywords: Obsessive passion; Interpersonal attraction; Co-founder; Venture team; Conjoint experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-07
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Published in Journal of Business Venturing, 2022, 37 (4), pp.106219. ⟨10.1016/j.jbusvent.2022.106219⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2022.106219

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