Abstract
The personality configuration of mentors and mentees is important in understanding mentoring outcomes. While the best mentors appear to have higher degrees of agreeableness and conscientiousness, entrepreneurs generally score lower on these characteristics and have higher degrees of narcissism, a personality trait that is detrimental to mentoring. We investigated the interaction of narcissism with two traits from the Big Five Inventory on the main recognized mentoring outcome, namely entrepreneurial learning. Our findings suggest that mentors' agreeableness mitigates the relationship between the mentees' narcissism and their learning, and that highly conscientious mentees learn less from narcissistic mentors. These findings show certain beneficial personality configurations in entrepreneurial mentoring and provide elements to consider in managerial practice when pairing mentors and mentees in this context.
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