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The truth about bricolage, dispositional optimism, and psychological wellbeing in entrepreneurship: evidence from a systematic review
World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development, Volume: 21, Issue: 5, Pages: 20 - 44
Swansea University Author:
Samuel Ebie
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DOI (Published version): 10.1504/wremsd.2025.150397
Abstract
While entrepreneurship offers personal fulfilment, autonomy and financial growth, it also poses significant psychological wellbeing challenges. Despite growing interest in this area, existing literature lacks an integrated analysis of how entrepreneurial bricolage and dispositional optimism jointly...
| Published in: | World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development |
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| ISSN: | 1746-0573 1746-0581 |
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Inderscience Publishers
2025
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa70990 |
| Abstract: |
While entrepreneurship offers personal fulfilment, autonomy and financial growth, it also poses significant psychological wellbeing challenges. Despite growing interest in this area, existing literature lacks an integrated analysis of how entrepreneurial bricolage and dispositional optimism jointly influence entrepreneurs' psychological wellbeing. This study employed Paul and Criado's (2020) systematic literature review protocol, drawing on articles from Journal Storage (JSTOR) and Scopus to develop an integrated research model. A review of 11 relevant studies revealed that entrepreneurial bricolage enables entrepreneurs to optimise limited resources, fostering job satisfaction and positive affect. Dispositional optimism enhances coping abilities, contributing to positive affect, job satisfaction and life satisfaction. By bringing together these underexplored yet impactful constructs, this study proposes an exploratory integrated research model that represents an initial step toward linking the behavioural (bricolage) and cognitive-affective (optimism) dimensions of entrepreneurial practice within a holistic framework. |
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| Keywords: |
entrepreneurial bricolage; dispositional optimism; life satisfaction; entrepreneurial psychological wellbeing; positive affect; job satisfaction; life satisfaction; fear of failure; entrepreneurial stress; exploratory integrated research models; uncertain environments; systematic review |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Issue: |
5 |
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20 |
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44 |