Volume 29, Issue 3
DOI: 10.24205/03276716.2020.943
The Influence of Entrepreneurial Passion on Team Passion -The Dual Mediating Role of Passion Imitation and Value Consistency
Abstract
In the background of the era of mass entrepreneurship and innovation, the social recognition of entrepreneurship is constantly improving, and more and more people are involved in the upsurge of entrepreneurship. However, the failure rate of China's start-ups has always been high because they face the dilemma of "new entrant defects" when they first enter the market and easily die in the fierce competition. In order to overcome the limitations brought by the lack of resources, entrepreneurs must make better use of my strengths, mobilize employees to actively participate in innovation and give play to their creativity, and promote enterprises to create unique competitiveness in the way of innovation, so as to survive and develop in the increasingly competitive business environment. Therefore, how to effectively stimulate and enhance employee creativity has become an important issue of common concern in the field of entrepreneurship of industry and education. The importance of team entrepreneurial passion for the team has been widely recognized, but its research is still in the initial stage. What factors can stimulate the team entrepreneurial passion and how to stimulate it need to be further studied. This paper attempts to explore the antecedent variables of team entrepreneurial passion and its function process to respond to the above questions. As the "backbone" of the entrepreneurial team, entrepreneurs are the key figures that affect the emotion, motivation and behavior of team members, and their leadership style has an important impact on the entrepreneurial passion of the team. At the same time, the consistency of values also affects the entrepreneurial passion of team members. Whether it is for the strategic development planning or the decision-making of specific matters in the enterprise development, it reflects the value decision-making of entrepreneurs and team members at a deep level. The common value orientation will make the decision-making process more smooth, and the decision-making results will be more easily implemented.Based on the above analysis of theoretical research and practical development evidence, this study attempts to establish a theoretical model of the relationship among entrepreneurial passion, emotional imitation, value consistency and team entrepreneurial passion, aiming to reveal the path and mechanism of entrepreneurial passion of entrepreneurs on team entrepreneurial passion. This paper attempts to make contributions in the following two aspects: first, it reveals the explanatory and predictive role of entrepreneurial passion on entrepreneurial team, and responds to the call of scholars to further promote the theoretical research of entrepreneurial passion at the team level.Secondly, based on the Cognitive-Affective Processing System (CAPS) theory, two synchronous and continuous mediating variables, namely passion imitation and value consistency, are introduced to reveal the transmission path of entrepreneurial passion and team entrepreneurial passion under the influence of psychological factors, which has important theoretical significance for further enriching and refining the research on team entrepreneurial passion. At the same time, this paper has important practical implications for the effective transmission and utilization of entrepreneurial passion of entrepreneurs and the creation of team entrepreneurship passion.
Keywords
entrepreneurial passion, value consistency, exploration of influence