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A Literature Review and Roadmap for Future Research on Entrepreneurial Burnout
Liu Yubin, Zhang Guijuan, Song Shuang
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Foreign Economics & Management Vol. 44, Issue 02, pp. 136 - 152 (2022)  DOI:10.16538/j.cnki.fem.20210528.401
First published at:Feb 20, 2022
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Based on 129 literatures obtained from main databases, this paper comprehensively reviews entrepreneurial burnout from the four dimensions of connotation, measurement, formation mechanism and impact, constructs an overall research framework, and explores future research directions.The conclusions are as follows: First, there are significant differences between entrepreneurial burnout and job burnout. Based on the two existing research elements, this paper puts forward three elements to define the connotation of entrepreneurial burnout: emotion, cognition and motivation. Second, the current scales of entrepreneurial burnout are based on job burnout, which cannot reflect the uniqueness of entrepreneurs’ burnout in the context of entrepreneurship. The scales need to be developed and designed based on emotion, cognition and motivation. Third, this paper systematically studies the formation factors of entrepreneurial burnout from the aspects of entrepreneur characteristics, entrepreneur cognition and entrepreneurial context, analyzes the formation process and mechanism of entrepreneurial burnout from the aspects of emotional perception, cognitive development and resource accumulation, and explains the formation situation and conditions of entrepreneurial burnout from the perspective of entrepreneur characteristics and organizational environment.

The future research directions include that: To deepen the research on the connotation and extension of entrepreneurial burnout from the perspective of team and organization levels and enterprise life cycle; to develop and optimize the measurement scale based on the three factors of entrepreneurial burnout; to explore the dynamic development process of entrepreneurial burnout and the formation mechanism of entrepreneurial burnout at different levels or in different entrepreneurial groups; to make empirical studies on the transmission mechanism of entrepreneurial burnout in the organization; and to explore the diversity of entrepreneurial burnout research methods.

The main contributions lie in that: This paper extends burnout to the field of entrepreneurship, and systematically analyzes the particularity of entrepreneurial burnout. Based on the three elements of emotion, cognition and motivation, this paper defines the connotation of entrepreneurial burnout, points out the shortcomings of the existing entrepreneurial burnout scale and its future research directions, and integrates the formation mechanism and impact of entrepreneurial burnout. It clarifies the theoretical research framework of entrepreneurial burnout, deepens the research of entrepreneurial emotion and entrepreneurial theory, and provides reference for entrepreneurs to maintain entrepreneurial passion and avoid entrepreneurial burnout.

Keywords
entrepreneurial emotion; entrepreneurial burnout; measurement; formation mechanism; impact
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Liu Yubin, Zhang Guijuan, Song Shuang. A Literature Review and Roadmap for Future Research on Entrepreneurial Burnout[J]. Foreign Economics & Management, 2022, 44(2): 136-152. 
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