Publication Type

PhD Dissertation

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

7-2025

Abstract

This dissertation spans three chapters covering the topics of mindfulness and entrepreneurship. The first chapter is a literature review summarizing the existing literature on mindfulness in entrepreneurship. The review provides an organizing framework for structuring the knowledge of mindfulness in entrepreneurship, along with an integrative framework and a detailed agenda for future research. Building on the insights generated through the literature review, the following two chapters provide empirical evidence for the role of mindfulness in entrepreneurship. The second chapter is an empirical study exploring how mindfulness relates to entrepreneurial well-being via its relation to co-founding team relationship quality and team processes, namely, goal coordination. Taking a relational perspective, we draw on Transactive Goal Dynamics Theory to propose that mindfulness supports better goal coordination among co-founders, which leads to better relationship quality and, ultimately, higher individual entrepreneurial well-being. Across two studies involving 516 entrepreneurs, we found support for a sequential mediation from mindfulness via goal coordination to co-founder relationship quality and, finally, entrepreneurial well-being. The third chapter investigates how mindfulness relates to entrepreneurial sustainable practices. Drawing on the S-ART framework, we explore how mindfulness, via fostering self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence (S-ART), affects a specific set of skills (systemic thinking, relational competence, ecological competence, flourishing) which in turn relate to entrepreneurial sustainable practices. We find support for our hypotheses across one correlational study (N = 289) and a 2-week randomized controlled field intervention study (N = 253). Taken together, the three chapters that make up this dissertation aim to contribute to advancing the research on mindfulness in entrepreneurship theoretically, methodologically, and empirically.

Keywords

Mindfulness, Entrepreneurship, Well-being, Co-founding teams, Sustainable Entrepreneurship

Degree Awarded

PhD in Business (OBHR)

Discipline

Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations | Organizational Behavior and Theory

Supervisor(s)

REB, Jochen Matthias

First Page

1

Last Page

265

Publisher

Singapore Management University

City or Country

Singapore

Copyright Owner and License

Author

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