Document Type
Article
Source of Publication
Small Business Economics
Publication Date
1-1-2024
Abstract
This exploratory study develops an understanding of how the hitherto under-investigated psychological dimension of place affects entrepreneurs’ well-being. The analysis focuses on eudaimonic well-being, which describes individuals’ psychological functioning and fulfillment of their best potentials and is relatively underexplored compared to hedonic well-being (happiness). Based on prior work in environmental psychology, the study proposes that entrepreneurs’ sense of place—their psychological bond with the local setting of their entrepreneurial activities—is an important component influencing their well-being. The empirical analysis of two waves of original survey data from entrepreneurs located in an urban and a rural region of Finland shows that the sense of place is positively associated with several dimensions of eudaimonic well-being. This study extends the literature by shifting the focus from place as a passive container for entrepreneurs’ activities to its role as an active source of entrepreneurial well-being.
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Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Disciplines
Business
Keywords
Entrepreneurship, Eudaimonia, Rural, Sense of place, Urban, Well-being
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Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Kautonen, Teemu; Soto-Simeone, Aracely; and Kibler, Ewald, "Unpacking the relationship between sense of place and entrepreneurs’ well-being" (2024). All Works. 6621.
https://zuscholars.zu.ac.ae/works/6621
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yes
Open Access Type
Hybrid: This publication is openly available in a subscription-based journal/series