The Role of Geographical Area and Entrepreneurs' Personality.

Amaia Yurrebaso,Teresa Paiva,Eva María Picado

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.671931

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This study proposed a line of research on entrepreneurship based on the analysis of personality traits and geographical area. Its objective is to identify whether certain personality traits or sociocultural variables typical of a particular geographical area influence those who have already started an entrepreneurial activity to keep it up, in other words, to maintain their entrepreneurial intention. The research results reach a sample of 479 entrepreneurs from two Iberian Peninsula geographical areas. The analyse of the psychometric properties on the Entrepreneurial Orientation Questionnaire (EOQ) identified five dimensions of the enterprising personality. They also evidence that geographical location is a factor that contributes to the development of the entrepreneurial intentions that determine the business profile. The results show that entrepreneurs in the northern area tend to maintain their business than those in the central zone.

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In recent years there has been growing social interest in everything that has to do with the world of entrepreneurs and the role that they can play in socio-economic life as activating agents
This paper aimed to study the role of geographical area and the possession of certain personality traits in maintaining entrepreneurial intention
The most relevant finding of this work has to do with the fact that both the social aspects, represented by the Geographical area variable, and some of the personality variables, identified by different authors as being significantly associated with entrepreneurial intention, are related to the maintenance of a business initiative (Cromie and Johns, 1983; Covin and Slevin, 1989; Koh, 1996; Cromie, 2000; Throsby, 2001; Filion, 2003; Vecchio, 2003; Collins et al, 2004; Sánchez García, 2010; Zahra and Nambisan, 2011; Sánchez and Yurrebaso, 2012; Montoya Cardona, 2015; Mustafa et al, 2016; Baluku et al, 2018, 2019; Arco-Tirado et al, 2019; Neneh, 2019; Yurrebaso et al, 2020)

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In recent years there has been growing social interest in everything that has to do with the world of entrepreneurs and the role that they can play in socio-economic life as activating agents. It has become necessary to increase employability indices to improve the quality of life of the population, and a valid mechanism for achieving this is self-employment The latter, in permanent transformation, stands as the great challenge that drives economic growth, which is why entrepreneurial initiative plays a significant role in the present societies (European Commission, 2012; Moriano et al, 2012; Wu et al, 2013). Entrepreneurship-based research highlights the contribution of intent as an individual predictor of planned behaviour They are a coherent and robust framework that helps to understand entrepreneurial processes (Sánchez, 2005; Sánchez García, 2010; Sánchez and Yurrebaso, 2012; Coulibaly et al, 2018; Echeverri et al, 2018; Dencker et al, 2019; Hou et al, 2019; Tornikoski and Maalaoui, 2019)

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