Understanding entrepreneurs’ loneliness: An integrative review of loneliness in management research
这篇综述梳理了创业、领导力和工作场所三个管理领域的163篇论文，整合了关于创业者孤独感的分散发现，提出了一个涵盖个体、社会和工作维度的分析框架，并区分了状态孤独和特质孤独，为后续研究提供了方向。
Entrepreneurship is a rewarding yet demanding path often marked by loneliness—a phenomenon with significant implications for entrepreneurs’ health and performance. Yet, existing research on loneliness in entrepreneurship suffers from scattered findings, inconsistent terminology, and insufficient attention to its connections with broader work-context loneliness research. This study addresses the current challenge by reviewing 163 papers across three management streams: entrepreneurship, leadership, and workplace. We map the landscape of loneliness and related constructs and propose an integrated framework for research on entrepreneurs’ loneliness. Our framework explores the interconnectedness of individual, social, and work dimensions of loneliness, considering the varying stability and durability of factors contributing to and arising from two types of loneliness: entrepreneurs’ state and trait loneliness. By synthesizing dispersed findings and proposing a future research agenda, this study advances a more coherent understanding of entrepreneurs’ loneliness and bridges disciplinary divides in management research.