TY - JOUR
T1 - Mindfulness and Taking Action to Start a New Business
AU - van Gelderen, Marco
AU - Kibler, Ewald
AU - Kautonen, Teemu
AU - Munoz, Pablo
AU - Wincent, Joakim
N1 - Published online: 04 Jan 2020
PY - 2019/11
Y1 - 2019/11
N2 - Mindfulness, meaning a receptive attention to and awareness of present events and experience, is reported to have a wide range of benefits, but it has been suggested that it could prove costly in terms of task performance. This article analyzes how dispositional mindfulness relates to taking entrepreneurial action. Based on two waves of survey data, we find that mindful individuals are less likely to engage in entrepreneurial action than less mindful individuals, but when they do start to act, they take as many actions as individuals who score low on trait mindfulness, and even more if they have entrepreneurial experience.
AB - Mindfulness, meaning a receptive attention to and awareness of present events and experience, is reported to have a wide range of benefits, but it has been suggested that it could prove costly in terms of task performance. This article analyzes how dispositional mindfulness relates to taking entrepreneurial action. Based on two waves of survey data, we find that mindful individuals are less likely to engage in entrepreneurial action than less mindful individuals, but when they do start to act, they take as many actions as individuals who score low on trait mindfulness, and even more if they have entrepreneurial experience.
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U2 - 10.1111/jsbm.12499
DO - 10.1111/jsbm.12499
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85058362813
SN - 0047-2778
VL - 57
SP - 489
EP - 506
JO - Journal of Small Business Management
JF - Journal of Small Business Management
IS - S2
ER -