Founders' flow: A qualitative study on the role of flow experience in early start-up stages.

ABSTRACT: Flow experience is a state of complete absorption while performing an optimally challenging and enjoyable task. It is often experienced at work-both in the form of individual and team flow-and can have a positive effect on performance and well-being. However, start-up founders' work situation differs from that in established companies, facing not only great autonomy but also new challenges, uncertainty, and risks. It can be assumed that flow also provides benefits in start-ups, however, this has not yet been examined in depth and the factors that may operate differently in start-ups in comparison to other work contexts have not yet been explored in detail. Using a qualitative research approach, 21 founders from different industries were interviewed. Enhancing and inhibiting factors of flow

SUBMITTER: Kloep L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10553822 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature