The emergence of team entrepreneurial passion from team helping: An affective events theory perspective

Research has acknowledged the outcomes of entrepreneurial passion, but little is known in regard to how it occurs. In this article, we shift focus team level and investigate emergence passion (TEP) from helping perspective. Drawing on affective events theory (AET), examine help-seeking -giving facilitate TEP. Team-level analyses were performed data drawn 487 members 112 new venture teams an accelerator for high-technology firms China. Our findings show that are a direct relationship with TEP; highlight interaction between these two aspects positively associated This article extends study TEP treats latter relation its separate related seeking giving. Further, our moves singular effects interactive perspective antecedents