Abstract
Entrepreneurship is one of the important economic phenomena of today. The entrepreneurs who put the initiatives into operation, which constitute the most fundamental building block of the economy, keep the interest above all periods. It can be stated that, it is tried to be increased with the support and incentives of the state and also with grants especially today. Entrepreneurship is a key element of economic development, employment creation and increasing the level of welfare which countries emphasize strongly. Entrepreneurship is the process of carrying the opportunities offered by the environment into a business activity. There are many characteristics that entrepreneurs who can see these opportunities should have, and as one of them, the entrepreneurial tendencies of university students who are candidates to become entrepreneurs and the personality traits considered as one of the factors affecting this tendency have been tried to be determined by considering the gender factor. In the study, it was aimed to determine the role of gender factor in the effect of personality traits of university students on their tendency to be entrepreneurs. For this purpose, data from 300 university students were obtained from the online questionnaires sent to university students. Reliability analysis and descriptive statistics were made with SPSS 16 for these data. For the analysis of the hypotheses, the structural equation model was applied in AMOS 19 program. It was determined that extraversion and openness to development dimension of personality traits affected entrepreneurship tendency. Additionally, it was determined that age and gender among demographic factors also affected the relationship between personality traits and entrepreneurship tendency. Keywords: Personality Traits, Entrepreneurial Traits, Entrepreneurial Tendency DOI: 10.7176/EJBM/13-6-17 Publication date: March 31 st 2021
Highlights
In the most common definition in the literature, an entrepreneur is the person who takes the risk and seeks to gain profit by bringing together the factors of production
Studies conducted in this context have shown that; three theories are emphasized in determining the personality traits of entrepreneurs
It was aimed to determine the role of personality traits and gender in this process which are considered to be an important factor in determining entrepreneurship tendency
Summary
In the most common definition in the literature, an entrepreneur is the person who takes the risk and seeks to gain profit by bringing together the factors of production. The personality traits of entrepreneurs are among the subjects that are widely researched Studies conducted in this context have shown that; three theories are emphasized in determining the personality traits of entrepreneurs. The first of these is the approach of Schumpeter (1935) who defines entrepreneurship as innovation. It was aimed to determine the role of personality traits and gender in this process which are considered to be an important factor in determining entrepreneurship tendency. In order to determine the role of gender factor in the effect of personality traits on entrepreneurship tendency, a questionnaire including expressions aimed at determining demographic factors, dimensions of personality traits and entrepreneurial tendency was prepared. The five-factor personality model consists of sub-dimensions of extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness to development (Hachana et al, 2018; Murugesan & Jayavelu, 2017; Leutner et al, 2014)
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