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Baby, I'm addicted! The pleasure-pain pathway that shifts entrepreneurial passion to entrepreneurial addiction: Pivotal role of dopamine

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  • Sinha, Rai Siddhant

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Passionate entrepreneurs often refer to their ventures as their babies; while we know that passion drives entrepreneurial action, research space is unclear about how entrepreneurial passion leads to addiction. This work takes a reductionist approach to explicate how entrepreneurial passion shifts to entrepreneurial addiction by discussing the pleasure-pain pathway that dopamine governs. Such an approach unravels how in a relentless pursuit of pleasure, an individual chases entrepreneurship because they are passionate about it but ends up being addicted to it. Besides contributing to entrepreneurship theory and practice, I discuss several future directions embedded in neuroentrepreneurship.

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  • Sinha, Rai Siddhant, 2022. "Baby, I'm addicted! The pleasure-pain pathway that shifts entrepreneurial passion to entrepreneurial addiction: Pivotal role of dopamine," Journal of Business Venturing Insights, Elsevier, vol. 18(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:jobuve:v:18:y:2022:i:c:s2352673422000385
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jbvi.2022.e00340
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