Abstract
[...]intrinsic motivation encourages entrepreneurs to explore opportunities that are more original and unique (Grant & Berry, 2011). [...]the question of flow and entrepreneurs is salient because employees have been found to experience flow when job demands match their skills (Bakker, 2008; Eisenberger, Jones, Stinglhamber, Shanock, & Randall, 2006), or when they have sufficient resources in their work such as support from colleagues and adequate funds or material (Bakker & Demerouti, 2007; Csikszentmihalyi, 2003), none of these are assured in an entrepreneurial environment. Interestingly, while flow research has shown strong linkage to well-being under many work and leisure situations, one area missing from this flow research stream has been within the domain of entrepreneurship. Since uncertainty is central to the entrepreneurial environment, it is unclear if the well-being and flow linkage found in other work situations extends to entrepreneurial environments.
