Abstract
Entrepreneurial personality research can be said to be at crossroads as researchers are unable to formulate an approach that has predictive and explanatory powers. The developments in personality research have prompted entrepreneurial personality researchers to suggest a model that is capable of explaining the structure and processes of entrepreneurial personality. The configurational model suggested in this paper draws upon the trait dynamics and the Cognitive-Affective Personality System theory of personality reflecting the features of a total system view of entrepreneurial personality that clearly differentiates the patterns of entrepreneurial and non-entrepreneurial behaviours. Trait theory and the Cognitive-Affective Personality System theory variables delve into the deeper psychological processes to identify the basic structure and the processes of entrepreneurial personality. The configurational dynamics espouse the general pattern of entrepreneurial personality in an interactive and mediating relation among the intra-individual structures including the situation. The configurational dynamics further identify and differentiate the specific entrepreneurial personality constructs that researchers and practitioners frequently refer to.
Highlights
Entrepreneurs who form a minor segment of the society are differentiated from non-entrepreneurs who constitute the major chunk of the population
The conventional Entrepreneurial Personality (EP) research focuses on correlational and unidirectional influences of personality on entrepreneurship wherein an assortment of personality traits are related with isolated EP characteristics
A greater understanding of the construct is embedded with the intra-individual processes and dynamics that differentiate entrepreneurs from non-entrepreneurs in an entrepreneurial context wherein the context too exercises a significant influence in the interactive and reciprocal determination of personality
Summary
Entrepreneurs who form a minor segment of the society are differentiated from non-entrepreneurs who constitute the major chunk of the population. In relation to this total system view of personality, it can be stated that EP structures and processes are to be understood relating the intra-individual processes of Cognition, Affect, Motivation, Traits, and the Situational processes (CAMTS) which in its interactive-mediational processes “operate as interlocking determinants of each other” (Bandura, 1978, p.346) that differentiate a personality or for that matter an entrepreneurial personality from a non-entrepreneurial one (McCrae & Costa, 2008; Mischel & Shoda, 1995; Obschonka & Stuetzer, 2017).
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