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Passion and Entrepreneurship

Contemporary Perspectives and New Avenues for Research

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  • Case studies provides rich and vivid empirical accounts of real entrepreneurial stories

  • Defines the role of passion at social levels, i.e. within individuals, teams and communities

  • Analyzes the multiple forms and faces of passion in entrepreneurship and their differences from rational profit pursuit

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Providing new perspectives on the interface between passion and entrepreneurship, this book recognizes that entrepreneurship is not just based on the search for profit. Instead, the entrepreneurial experience incorporates more complex processes, often based on less rational behavior motivated by reasons other than revenue. ‘Passion’ refers both to emotional elements that may fuel an entrepreneurial effort as well as something that feeds the business.

The book challenges established views and shows the complexity of the link between passion and entrepreneurship. The authors discuss the main implications for businesses, and explore how passion at the individual and community level influences entrepreneurial efforts. Offering case studies from multiple sectors alongside conceptual frameworks, this edited volume is a useful tool for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers working on entrepreneurship.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

    Enrico Baraldi, Marcus Lindahl, Andrea Perna

  • Department of Economics and Management, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

    Simone Guercini

About the editors

Enrico Baraldi is Full Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management at the department of Civil and Industrial Engineering, Uppsala University, Sweden.

Simone Guercini is a Full Professor of Marketing and Management at the University of Florence, Italy, and visiting Professor at ISEM, University of Navarra, Spain.

Marcus Lindahl is Chair of Industrial Engineering & Management at the department of Civil and Industrial Engineering, Uppsala University, Sweden. He is also guest Professor in Production Management & Innovation at the department of Sustainable Production, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.

Andrea Perna is Associate Professor at the department of Management, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy, and visiting researcher at the department of Civil and Industrial Engineering, Uppsala University, Sweden.



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Passion and Entrepreneurship

  • Book Subtitle: Contemporary Perspectives and New Avenues for Research

  • Editors: Enrico Baraldi, Simone Guercini, Marcus Lindahl, Andrea Perna

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47933-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47932-9Published: 01 September 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47935-0Published: 01 September 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-47933-6Published: 31 August 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 238

  • Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Entrepreneurship

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