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Jones, M., Norman, E., Egeland, T., & Schei, V. (2025). Don't calm down! How affective climate emerges in start-ups. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 1–39. https://doi.org/10.1002/sej.70007

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🎙️🔥 Welcome to Revise and Resubmit!
Today, we’re turning the dial to full emotion — the electric heart of entrepreneurial life. ⚡ Startups don’t just grow from ideas or strategy; they grow from feeling. And that’s where today’s spotlight from an FT50 powerhouse journal, the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, comes in. 🚀

Our featured paper — “Don’t calm down! How affective climate emerges in start-ups” — is a thrilling exploration by Marius Jones, Elisabeth Norman, Therese Egeland, and Vidar Schei, published on October 13, 2025, by John Wiley & Sons Ltd for the Strategic Management Society.

😮 In the world of new ventures, emotions run wild — optimism ignites one day, anxiety shadows the next, and somewhere between those highs and lows... a culture begins to breathe. This study dives deep into that heartbeat, following five early-stage start-ups over twenty-two months to watch how affective climate — the shared emotional atmosphere — takes shape.

The authors reveal that the most creative, high-performing start-ups don’t chase constant positivity or suppress tension. Instead, they cultivate authenticity — a climate where people can show up as they are, neither too calm nor too chaotic. Emotions here aren’t enemies; they’re signals, sparks, and sometimes, solutions. From constructive meta-emotions to interpersonal validation, this research shows that emotional honesty might just be the secret competitive advantage for founders navigating uncertainty.

💡 And that’s why the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, one of the FT50 elite, stands out — bridging cutting-edge management theory with the raw, real pulse of human behavior in business.

🎧 So before you ride the next emotional curve of your own creative journey, hit subscribe to Revise and Resubmit on Spotify, Amazon Prime, and Apple Podcast. And don’t miss our visual takes on the Weekend Researcher YouTube channel — where academic ideas meet entrepreneurial chaos with flair and fun. 🤓🚀

🙏 Huge thanks to Marius Jones, Elisabeth Norman, Therese Egeland, and Vidar Schei, and to John Wiley & Sons Ltd, for giving us a reason to rethink emotion not as noise… but as the rhythm of innovation.

🤔 Here’s our question for you — in a world obsessed with staying calm, could feeling deeply be the real superpower of successful founders? 💭🔥