A Systematic Literature Review on Entrepreneurship for Well-Beiing

Abstract

This paper systematically reviews and critically examines the existing literature on well-being from the lens of entrepreneurship, in order to identify the state of the literature and propose future re-search agenda. The systematic literature review technique was employed to collect scientific re-search. All together eighty-two articles were included in the data analyses. The results suggest a diverse literature trying to link entrepreneurship and well-being, which indicates a growing but nascent area of research. The further inventory and critical evaluations of the existing research were categorised in terms of the research context, scope, results and conceptual rigours. Inherent from the systematic literature review technique, the scope of the existing literature covered in this paper may not be as comprehensive as a narrative literature review would have been. However, this article articulates the importance, timeliness and relevance of entrepreneurship for well-being in light of the increasing interests in both fields. It proposes a dynamic view of entrepreneurship and develops an ambitious research agenda, which addresses a number of emerging issues con-cerning well-being and entrepreneurship research.

What science says about entrepreneurs' well-being: a conceptual structure review

“…From various definitions (see among others: Knight, 1964;Bird, 1988;Lumpkin and Dess, 1996;Shane and Venkataraman, 2000;McMullen and Shepherd, 2006;Uy et al, 2013;Daspit et al, 2023), it can be deduced that entrepreneurship involves taking risks, making decisions, seizing opportunities and acting creatively, proactively and innovatively in uncertain environments to achieve individual entrepreneurial goals. Entrepreneurs' well-being is a concept within the entrepreneurship literature, although other disciplines have also conducted literature reviews on the topic (see Shir, 2015;Ma and Olayinka, 2018;S anchez-Garc ıa et al, 2018). In this regard, studies in economics, psychology, sociology and entrepreneurship have documented that entrepreneurs (self-employed or independent workers) have higher job satisfaction than employees (wage-earning or dependent workers), even after accounting for (Blanchflower and Oswald, 1998;Coad, 2013, 2016;Nikolova and Graham, 2014;Hessels et al, 2018;S anchez-Garc ıa et al, 2018) occupational differences, and skills (Hessels et al, 2017).…”