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Emotional demands and entrepreneurial burnout: the role of autonomy and job satisfaction

Yosr Ben Tahar, Nada Rejeb Orcid Logo, Adnane Maalaoui, Sascha Kraus, Paul Westhead, Paul Jones Orcid Logo

Small Business Economics, Volume: 61, Pages: 701 - 716

Swansea University Author: Paul Jones Orcid Logo

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Entrepreneurs can exhibit the entrepreneurial burnout syndrome, which retards entrepreneur and firm performance. Building upon insights from the conservation of resources theory of stress response and psychology theory, this study examined the role of entrepreneur emotional demands as well as job au...

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Published in: Small Business Economics
ISSN: 0921-898X 1573-0913
Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2023
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa61577
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Abstract: Entrepreneurs can exhibit the entrepreneurial burnout syndrome, which retards entrepreneur and firm performance. Building upon insights from the conservation of resources theory of stress response and psychology theory, this study examined the role of entrepreneur emotional demands as well as job autonomy and satisfaction resources with regard to entrepreneurial burnout. Multivariate regression analysis relating to 273 entrepreneurs in France revealed that emotional demands were positively associated with entrepreneurial burnout, whilst job autonomy and satisfaction were negatively associated with entrepreneurial burnout. Job autonomy buffered the negative effect of emotional demands on entrepreneurial burnout. However, job satisfaction did not buffer the negative effect of emotional demands on entrepreneurial burnout. Implications are discussed.
Keywords: Entrepreneurial burnout; conservation of resources; theory of stress response; emotional demands, job resources
College: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Start Page: 701
End Page: 716