This exploratory study develops an understanding of how the hitherto under-investigated psychological dimension of place affects entrepreneurs’ well-being. The analysis focuses on eudaimonic well-being, which describes individuals’ psychological functioning and fulfillment of their best potentials and is relatively underexplored compared to hedonic well-being (happiness). Based on prior work in environmental psychology, the study proposes that entrepreneurs’ sense of place—their psychological bond with the local setting of their entrepreneurial activities—is an important component influencing their well-being. The empirical analysis of two waves of original survey data from entrepreneurs located in an urban and a rural region of Finland shows that the sense of place is positively associated with several dimensions of eudaimonic well-being. This study extends the literature by shifting the focus from place as a passive container for entrepreneurs’ activities to its role as an active source of entrepreneurial well-being.

这项探索性研究加深了对迄今为止尚未充分研究的地方心理维度如何影响企业家福祉的理解。该分析的重点是幸福感，它描述了个人的心理功能和最佳潜力的实现，与享乐感幸福感（幸福）相比，它的研究相对较少。基于之前的环境心理学研究，该研究提出，企业家的地方感——他们与创业活动当地环境的心理联系——是影响他们幸福感的重要组成部分。对芬兰城市和农村地区企业家的两波原始调查数据的实证分析表明，地方感与幸福感的多个维度呈正相关。这项研究通过将焦点从作为企业家活动的被动容器的地方转移到作为企业家福祉的主动来源的作用来扩展文献。