Entrepreneurial Personality Traits Research Articles

The influence of entrepreneurial personality on franchisee performance: A cross-cultural analysis

Through a survey-based study of 761 franchisees from four countries, the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Spain – this research examines how a franchisee’s entrepreneurial personality traits affects the financial and relational performance of franchise units. While there is consensus that franchisee characteristics are important for successful franchise networks, there is a long-standing debate within the franchise literature as to the status, and indeed desirability, of franchisees as entrepreneurs. First, we consider how the personality traits of proactivity, innovativeness and locus of control influence the manifestation of entrepreneurial behaviours within the franchise unit, and both the direct and indirect relationships with unit performance. Second, we explore these relationships in two contexts, one associated with high entrepreneurial values (the United States and the United Kingdom) and another with low entrepreneurial values (France and Spain) to determine if the results are consistent across cultures which value entrepreneurship differently. The results suggest that franchisee performance, in terms of both financial performance and relationship quality, are indirectly enhanced by a proactive disposition, mediated by entrepreneurial behaviours. A direct positive relationship was found between locus of control and performance outcomes, but interestingly, franchisees with more innovative personalities performed less well financially. The relationships between franchisee personality, entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and performance were found to be largely consistent across the two cultural groups.

Effects of Entrepreneurship Education as an Entrepreneurial Personality Trait Model under Entrepreneurial Intention for the Future in Surabaya

Entrepreneurship is an important sector that can sustain a country's economic growth. Entrepreneur can be formed from entrepreneurial personality traits which are supported through formal education that emphasizes entrepreneurship. The purpose of this research is to analyze the effect of entrepreneurial personality traits that consist of self efficacy, proactive personality, and locus of control and entrepreneurship education as moderating variable on entrepreneurial intention. The population in this research is business management active students at Surabaya. Accidental sampling technique that is used produces the total sample of 152 people by distributing questionnaires. The research method that is used in this research is multiple linear regression to find out the effect of the independent variables on the dependent variable and determination coefficient analysis to find out the effect of the moderating variable. The results of the multiple linear regression analysis shows that self efficacy, proactive personality, and locus of control affect significantly on entrepreneurial intention. The results of this research also shows that entrepreneurship education is able to moderate self efficacy on entrepreneurial intention.

Assessing and understanding entrepreneurial profiles of undergraduate students: implications of heterogeneity for entrepreneurship education

The present research uses exploratory quantitative methods to assess and understand the entrepreneurial profiles of undergraduate student groups as a driver for initial entrepreneurial intentions. The authors do this by examining the entrepreneurial self-efficacy, entrepreneurial skills, and entrepreneurial personality traits of undergraduate students, with a focus on differences between students who select entrepreneurship as their academic concentration and those who do not. A total of 1554 student assessments were analyzed from twenty-four universities, with approximately 75% of the respondents from the USA and 25% from outside the USA. Results demonstrate the heterogeneous nature of student groups and entrepreneurial profiles, with significant differences observed among various student majors. Findings of the study have theoretical, empirical, and practical implications for the design and delivery of undergraduate entrepreneurship education.

KOSGEB Uygulamalı Girişimcilik Eğitimi Alan Üniversite Öğrencilerinin Girişimci Kişilik Özellikleri ve Kariyer Planları Arasındaki İlişki: AKÜ Örneği1 (The Relationship Between Entrepreneurial Personality Characteristics and Career Plans of University Students Undergoing KOSGEB Applied Entrepreneurship Training: The Case of AKU)

Purpose – The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of entrepreneurial personality traits on career preferences of university students in Applied Entrepreneurship Education. Design/methodology/approach – The population of the study consisted of third and fourth grade students studying at Afyon Kocatepe University, Faculty of Science and Letters, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Faculty of Technology and Tourism Faculty. The sample of the study consists of 595 students who received Applied Entrepreneurship Training and who returned to the survey from this group. In order to analyze the obtained data and determine the reliability of the questionnaire, SPSS statistical package program was used for social sciences. Reliability Analysis for measuring the reliability of the questionnaires through SPSS statistical package program, Normality Test for measuring whether the responses to the questionnaire are distributed normally, Factor Analysis for analyzing the value of the factor loadings of the questionnaire expressions and Multiple Regression Analysis, Independent Sample T-Test and Correlation Analysis were used for testing hypotheses. Findings - It was concluded that there was a significant relationship between entrepreneurial personality traits and career values of the students. It was found that the factor that has the most effect on entrepreneurial personality traits is pure challenge and the entrepreneurial personality trait that has the most impact on career values is the need for success. It was determined that there is a positive linear relationship between entrepreneurship education and career values, entrepreneur personality traits and entrepreneurship tendency. Discussion – The universe of the research consists of the third and fourth grade students who take Applied Entrepreneurship Course at Afyon Kocatepe University, Faculty of Science and Letters, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Technology Faculty and Tourism Faculty. The limitation of this study is that the user research was conducted only with the students who received Applied Entrepreneurship Education in certain faculties. For this reason, the development of entrepreneurial personality traits and career values of the students who received and without entrepreneurship education could not be compared. In order to examine the effect of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial personality traits and career values in more detail, studies can be conducted on a sample group of students with and without entrepreneurship training. As a result, the findings obtained by evaluating the data collected in the literature and user research revealed that there are significant relationships between entrepreneurial personality traits, career values and entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurship tendency and career choice.

A REVIEW ON MEASURING ENTREPRENEURS' SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR VIA SPATIAL ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES

Abstract. This article reviews the subject of entrepreneur with a focus on the components of the entrepreneurial personality traits that are reflected in entrepreneur behaviour. Human behaviour receives a warm welcome in social psychology for examination and measurement of individual social behaviour. There are a number of tools to measure human behaviour in social science such as Likert scale, Indices, Social Network Analysis, E-scan and lastly most popular Big Five Factor Model. In entrepreneurship, entrepreneur’s personality can be reflected in their action, activity, and behaviour in certain space such as traveling to find raw resources in certain distance or their decision on size of the shop. Using in-depth observation and examination of this behaviour, there are several spatial elements that could lead to the possibility in implementing spatial measurement in entrepreneur behaviour. However, there is a scarcity of research and implementation of the spatial measurement on entrepreneur behaviour, even though it is already acknowledged that space influences human behaviour and vice versa human behaviour has an impact on space. Thus, this article aims to highlight the possibility of implementing spatial measurement in entrepreneur behaviour and current exploration of spatial measurement for human behaviours.

Impact of Big Five Personality Traits on Entrepreneurial Intention of Engineering Undergraduates

The purpose of this paper is to identify the influence of Big Five personality traits of extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability and openness to experience on entrepreneurial intention of engineering undergraduates. Entrepreneurship for engineers is not new to the world. Recent changes in the world and engineering present both challenges and opportunities to engineering education. Engineering education is changing to meet these challenges. A study was conducted with the sample of 202 final year undergraduates in engineering faculties in Sri Lanka. Exploratory Factor Analysis, Multiple Regression and Structural Equation Modeling were applied to analyze the relationships of these variables. The results demonstrate that entrepreneurial personality traits which relate significantly to entrepreneurial intention of undergraduates are characterized by high emotional stability and openness to experience. The findings are discussed and interpreted to provide important implications to practitioners and academics.

Risk attitudes and personality traits of entrepreneurs and venture team members

Personality distinctions between entrepreneurs, nonfounder CEOs/leaders, and inventor employees have received limited attention, especially in innovative settings where they are working together. We surveyed these groups, along with other employees of innovative firms, at 4 locations of a prominent innovation and coworking center. Entrepreneurs display the greatest tolerance of risk, even in small gambles, as well as the strongest self-efficacy, internal locus of control, and need for achievement. Nonfounder CEOs/leaders typically sit in between entrepreneurs and employees for personality traits. Entrepreneurs, nonfounder CEOs/leaders, and inventor employees all show more innovative personalities than the noninventor employees in the same companies.

Sensory processing sensitivity and entrepreneurial intention: The strength of a weak trait

Research on entrepreneurial personality traits has done a commendable job in developing theory and providing evidence for the consistent effects of the entrepreneurial trait profile (ETP) on various entrepreneurial outcomes. While research has established the fit between the extravert, conscientious and open traits and entrepreneurial intention (EI), the view that entrepreneurship may provide an alternative career path for people outside the norm has attracted increasing interest. In this study, we explore a counterweight to the dominant ‘superhero’ personality perspective by arguing that, in entrepreneurship, highly sensitive persons (HSPs) can attend to their own needs and skills, and turn their weaknesses into strengths. Sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) – a fundamental meta-personality trait – may provide the crucial piece in the personality puzzle related to opportunity recognition ability (ORA) and the intention to act entrepreneurially. We adopt a person-environment fit approach and employ fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA). We find that combinations of either SPS or ETP and ORA are sufficient conditions for EI. This study contributes to the literature on entrepreneurial traits by inviting reconsideration of the stereotypical view of extrovert and open entrepreneurs and acknowledging the strength of a ‘weak’ trait.

KADIN VE ERKEK GİRİŞİMCİLERİN GİRİŞİMCİ KİŞİLİK ÖZELLİKLERİNİN KARŞILAŞTIRILMASI

It has been claimed that there are entrepreneurial personality characteristics lead individuals become entrepreneur. Uncertainty tolerance, achievement, dominance, affiliation and autonomy are among the foreground entrepreneurial personality characteristics. The purpose of the study is comparing male and female entrepreneurs in terms of entrepreneurial personality characteristics. The data of the research were obtained from 30 male and 30 female entrepreneurs from Şırnak province through survey. Discriminant analysis was applied to determine whether male and female participants differed in their entrepreneurial personality characteristics. Findings of the analysis showed that the female entrepreneurs’ uncertainty tolerance was lower than that of the male entrepreneurs, but other entrepreneurial personality traits were found to be higher. According to these results, it can be said that female entrepreneurs have a high entrepreneurial potential. It is thought that especially if economic support is provided women entrepreneurs will be able to make successful initiatives

Mikro Kredi Kullanan ve Kullanmayan Kadınların Girişimci Kişilik Özellikleri: Şırnak Örneği

Microcredits are important for dissemination of entrepreneurship and especially for development of rural areas as well as for promoting women's socio-economic status and increasing their and their families’ welfare. The expected benefits of microcredit application depend on the fact that it is given to women have entrepreneurial personality traits. The aim of this study is to determine whether women using micro-credits have entrepreneurial personality characteristics. For this reason, the women using microcredit for at least one year, women participating entrepreneurial activities by their own possibilities and housewives in the Sirnak province were included in the research. A total of 159 women (53 women from each group) were interviewed face to face. The obtained data have been evaluated by using the Discriminant Analysis. Results of the analysis showed that women using micro-credit are similar to entrepreneurial women only in terms of autonomy. Autonomy average of entrepreneur women and women using micro-credit was higher than housewives. It has been found that women who use micro-credits are similar to housewives in terms of uncertainty, achievement and dominance. The mean achievement and dominance of women using micro-credits and housewives are lower than those of entrepreneurial women; the uncertainty tolerance was found to be higher.

GİRİŞİMCİ KİŞİLİK ÖZELLİKLERİNİN GİRİŞİMCİLİK NİYETİ ÜZERİNE ETKİSİ: UYGULAMALI GİRİŞİMCİLİK EĞİTİMİNE KATILANLAR ÜZERİNE BİR ÇALIŞMA

Bu çalışmanın amacı, uygulamalı girişimcilik eğitimine katılanların girişimci kişilik özelliklerini ve girişimci kişilik özelliklerinin girişimcilik niyeti üzerindeki rolünü belirlemektir. Araştırma amaçları doğrultusunda tasarlanan ölçme aracında girişimci kişilik özelliklerini belirlemek amacıyla İşcan ve Kaygın (2011) tarafından geliştirilen girişimci kişilik özellikleri ölçeği; girişimcilik niyetini belirlemek amacıyla ise Liñán ve Chen (2009) tarafından geliştirilen girişimcilik niyeti ölçeği kullanılmıştır. Çalışma sonuçlarında en yüksek olarak gözlenen girişimci kişilik özelliğinin kendine güven, en düşük olarak gözlenen girişimci kişilik özelliğinin ise belirsizliğe karşı tolerans, olduğu belirlenmiştir. Bununla birlikte girişimci kişilik özelliklerinden kendine güven, başarma ihtiyacı, iç kontrol odağı ve belirsizliğe karşı tolerans ile girişimcilik niyeti arasında anlamlı ilişkiler saptanmıştır. Bununla birlikte risk alma ve yenilikçilik ile girişimcilik niyeti arasında anlamlı bir ilişki bulunamamıştır.

Evaluation of Medical College Students’ Entrepreneurial Skills and Its Relationship with Social Intelligence

Social intelligence and entrepreneurial skills are important factors influencing individual academic performance and career development. Studies have shown that people with high social intelligence have the ability to understand and manage others and have an advantage in innovation. The entrepreneurial personality trait is precisely the courage to innovate. Therefore, there is a close relationship between entrepreneurship and social intelligence. In this study, the author explores the relationship between students’ social intelligence level and entrepreneurial skills based on medical college students. This study used a cross-sectional descriptive method for related research. The results showed that the overall scores of the entrepreneurial skills assessment criteria of the students were lower. This shows that students’ performance levels of entrepreneurial skills are relatively weak. This result shows that we need to further improve the entrepreneurial skills of medical university students and take the necessary measures to improve students’ social intelligence.

Entrepreneurial Intention among Engineering Students and Its Main Determinants

Abstract The aim of this paper is to analyze the entrepreneurial intentions of the Romanian engineering students and their main determinants in order to identify some ways through which the entrepreneurial behaviour of potential entrepreneurs can be stimulated. The direct effect of entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurial family background and entrepreneurial personality traits on students’ entrepreneurial intentions was analysed in a sample of 138 engineering students, in the last year of study, bachelor’s degree, from Petru Maior University of Tirgu Mures, Romania. The hierarchical multiple regression analysis results highlight that students’ entrepreneurial family background and entrepreneurial personality traits positively influence the entrepreneurial intentions of future engineers. Moreover, results show that students’ participation in entrepreneurship education does not influence significantly their entrepreneurial intentions fact which highlights the need to improve effectiveness of the entrepreneurship education in the university curriculum in order to stimulate high-growth technology ventures of future engineers.

How Does Entrepreneurship Education Given At Universities Affect The Entrepreneurial Personality Traits? An Experimental Research

Girişimcilik, ülke ekonomisi açısından büyük bir önem taşımaktadır. Bunun yanı sıra girişimcilik, tüm ülkeler için önemli bir sorun olan işsizliğin etkilerinin azaltılması açısından anahtar bir rol üstlenmektedir. Tüm kişilik özelliklerinde olduğu gibi girişimci kişilik özelliklerinin de eğitimden etkileneceği bir gerçektir. Bu bağlamda, yükseköğrenimin verildiği üniversiteler, girişimciliğin gençlere öğretilmesi bakımından hayati bir fonksiyona sahiptir. Bu çalışmada; üniversitelerde verilen girişimcilik eğitiminin, girişimci kişilik özelliklerini (Kendine Güven, Yenilik, Başarma İhtiyacı, Kontrol Odağı, Risk Almak, Belirsizliğe Karşı Tolerans) ne ölçüde etkilediği Yarı-Deneysel Tasarım türlerinden biri olan tek gruplu ilk test – son test tekniği kullanılarak analiz edilmiştir. Bulgular; girişimcilik eğitiminin “Kendine Güven, Yenilik, Başarma İhtiyacı, Kontrol Odağı, Risk Almak ” boyutları üzerinde anlamlı bir etkisi olduğunu göstermektedir.

THE EFFECT OF ENTREPRENEURIAL TRAIT IN THE RELATIONSHIP OF TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION AND ENTREPRENEURIAL BEHAVIOR

Entrepreneurship has become an important national agenda especially in creating young entrepreneurs. This paper aims to determine the entrepreneurial behavior through technology entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial personality trait of students from Science and Technology clusters. The purpose of technology entrepreneurship subject is to encourage students to embark on their entrepreneurship venture using technology. A total of five hundred and ninety-two usable questionnaires were collected at the end of the semester. Partial Least Square was utilized to explore the relationship of variables. Entrepreneurial personality trait mediated the relationship of technology entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial behavior despite of lack of business exposure among students. Technology entrepreneurship education helps to foster the entrepreneurial behavior among students. In addition, knowing students’ entrepreneurial personality traits further strengthen the entrepreneurial behavior. Findings and recommendation of this study are discussed.
 
 Keywords: Entrepreneurial behavior, entrepreneurial trait, technology entrepreneurship education

Regionale Unterschiede der Verteilung von Personen mit unternehmerischem Persönlichkeitsprofil in Deutschland – ein Überblick

Recent research has found clear indications of regional differences in the personality traits of the population. Such regional differences may significantly contribute to explaining regional development. We provide an overview of regional differences in entrepreneurial personality traits among the population in Germany. There are a number of highly significant regional differences but the strength of the effects is relatively small. The empirical evidence suggests that the regional differences found are due to selective migration and also to socialization.

Identifying personality traits associated with entrepreneurial success: does gender matter?

This study provides a conceptual and empirical clarification of the extent to which the Big Five personality traits of openness to experience, extraversion, neuroticism, conscientiousness, and agreeableness affect entrepreneurial success in an emerging country context. We also examine whether gender moderates the association between these five personality traits and entrepreneurial success. 174 Tunisian entrepreneurs were surveyed by using a questionnaire and the partial least squares method and multi-group analysis were piloted to test the six research hypotheses. The results clearly demonstrate that entrepreneurial personality traits that relate significantly to business success are characterized by high emotional stability, openness to experience, and conscientiousness. Further, the results illustrate that gender moderates the association between personality and entrepreneurial success. Government agencies that promote and encourage entrepreneurs and business creation may find the presented findings useful in helping to recognize future successful entrepreneurs on the basis of their personality traits.JEL Codes: M1

The effect of entrepreneurial personality traits of undergraduates in the area of education of physical education and sports on the entrepreneurship tendency

The aim of the study is to identify the existing situation of entrepreneurship, whose importance gradually increases for the last 20 years, among university students taking education in the area of education of physical education and sports; to study whether or not entrepreneurial personality traits (desire to succeed, resolution, practical intelligence, innovativeness, independence, self-confidence) affect entrepreneurship tendency; and to try to identify the degree of this effect. The sample of the study consist of 610 students from the Departments of Physical Education Teaching, Coaching Education, and Sports Management, who receive undergraduate education in Collegeges of Physical Education and Sports in Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey, Niğde, Aksaray, and Erciyes Universities and Faculty of Sport Sciences, Gazi and Selcuk University. In the study, sociodemographic form as well as “Entrepreneurial Personality Traits Inventory” to identify entrepreneurial personality traits, and Entrepreneurship Education Inventory were utilized. As a result of the study, among entrepreneurial personality traits, other than the factors of innovativeness and independence, it revealed that entrepreneurial personality traits had an effect on entrepreneurship education. In addition, it was also identified that there was a positive directional significant relationship between entrepreneurial personality traits and entrepreneur education. As also understood from here, among the other elements (family, belief, culture, etc.) affecting entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial personality traits have an important place in terms of entrepreneurship education.

Entrepreneurial intention among science & technology students in India: extending the theory of planned behavior

The present research endeavours to comprehend the young S&T graduates’ intention toward pursuing an entrepreneurial career in a developing nation i.e., India. Using a modified version of Ajzen’s theory of planned behaviour (TPB) as our conceptual model, we attempted to integrate three additional constructs (perceived career option, entrepreneurial knowledge and entrepreneurial personality traits) to explain the relationship between a list of antecedents and entrepreneurial intention (EI). Structural equation modelling (SEM) technique has been implemented while analysing the data, collected through a self-administered questionnaire survey of five premier technology institutes in India. Findings, using a sample size of 476 young Science & Technology graduates at Indian Institute of Technology (IITs), suggest that a positive attitude toward entrepreneurship when reinforced by required entrepreneurial knowledge and the existence of viable entrepreneurial career option significantly influence EI. We found a positive but relatively weak influence of subjective norms on intention formation. Further, our findings recognise that the relationship between entrepreneurial personality traits and EI is fully mediated by perceived self-efficacy. Moderating effect suggests that student’s perceived self-efficacy boosts the entrepreneurial personality traits to EI relationship. The results also reinforced the appropriateness of incorporating auxiliary constructs in base TPB, as our conceptual model provides additional predictive power and a better understanding of how entrepreneurial intent develops.

The ‘feminine’ entrepreneurial personality trait: The competitive advantage of female college-student entrepreneurs in Chinese wei-shang businesses?

We conducted this grounded theory research to study the motivation of wei-shangs (i.e., wechat businesspersons) in starting their own business ventures, and their business model and entrepreneurial behaviors. We found that many college-student wei-shangs are risk-adverse individuals who think of entrepreneurship merely as a leisure-time pursuit. We also found that ‘feminine’ characteristics seem to hold a key to successful entrepreneurship. Furthermore, we found that wei-shangs use the wechat platform to extend their social network and to gain the trust of potential customers to get them to buy their products.