This special issue examines how emotions influence entrepreneurial judgment and decision-making, particularly in community-based and localized ecosystems. While existing research has focused on positive emotions like passion and resilience, the issue seeks to explore understudied emotional domains such as despair, awe, humility, guilt, empathy, and regret that shape entrepreneurs' strategic choices, resilience, and ethical judgments.
The special issue welcomes interdisciplinary research on how diverse emotional experiences affect entrepreneurial cognition and behavior within small businesses, family firms, and social enterprises. It invites both quantitative approaches examining causal relationships and qualitative studies exploring contextualized experiences, alongside theoretical contributions offering new frameworks for understanding emotions in entrepreneurship.
Insights from this research aim to inform policy-making, entrepreneurial education, and support structures by revealing how emotional dynamics drive sustainable business practices, ethical decision-making, and community engagement in localized entrepreneurial ecosystems.