What is the real value of entrepreneurship? We propose a framework of psychological utility by integrating Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) theory with a recovery approach from a personal agency perspective. We hypothesize that personal agency together with the positive JD-R pattern of entrepreneurship generates outstanding psychological utility, which maintains and rewards a healthy, strong work engagement that spills over to off-work time. This benefits entrepreneurs, but also their businesses reliant on strong work engagement that avoids burnout. We validate our framework by means of panel data comprising four waves (348 entrepreneurs and 1002 employees), where we also analyze different types of entrepreneurs.

创业的真正价值是什么？我们通过将工作需求-资源 (JD-R) 理论与个人代理角度的恢复方法相结合，提出了一个心理效用框架。我们假设个人能动性与积极的 JD-R 创业模式一起产生了显着的心理效用，它维持和奖励健康、强大的工作投入，这种投入会延伸到下班时间。这有利于企业家，也有利于他们依赖于避免倦怠的强烈工作参与度的企业。我们通过包含四波（348 名企业家和 1002 名员工）的面板数据来验证我们的框架，我们还分析了不同类型的企业家。