TY - CHAP

T1 - A personality approach to entrepreneurship

AU - Frese, Michael

AU - Rauch, Andreas

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © Oxford University Press, 2013.

PY - 2009/9/2

Y1 - 2009/9/2

N2 - The aim of this article is to review the personality approach on the basis of the theoretical framework, which assumes that the effects of a person's traits on his or her entrepreneurial behavior are mediated by specific traits and motivations, and moderated by environmental conditions. The article relies to a considerable extent on meta-analytical evidence. It argues that although the personality approach to entrepreneurship may help in explaining entrepreneurial behavior, it should be supplemented by sound and theoretically justified developments of modern personality psychology. The article also argues that it is essential to include a process view: Prime candidates for mediating processes are characteristics which are more proximal to the actions and the behavior of entrepreneurs. Although an individual's personality consists of stable trait components as well as of less stable ones, a personality approach also needs to consider the process dynamics of personality constructs.

AB - The aim of this article is to review the personality approach on the basis of the theoretical framework, which assumes that the effects of a person's traits on his or her entrepreneurial behavior are mediated by specific traits and motivations, and moderated by environmental conditions. The article relies to a considerable extent on meta-analytical evidence. It argues that although the personality approach to entrepreneurship may help in explaining entrepreneurial behavior, it should be supplemented by sound and theoretically justified developments of modern personality psychology. The article also argues that it is essential to include a process view: Prime candidates for mediating processes are characteristics which are more proximal to the actions and the behavior of entrepreneurs. Although an individual's personality consists of stable trait components as well as of less stable ones, a personality approach also needs to consider the process dynamics of personality constructs.

KW - Business psychology

KW - personality approach

KW - Entrepreneurial behavior

KW - meta-analytical evidence

KW - personality psychology

KW - personality constructs

KW - Entrepreneurship

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U2 - 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199234738.003.0006

DO - 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199234738.003.0006

M3 - Chapter

SN - 978-0-19-923473-8

SP - 121

EP - 136

BT - The Oxford Handbook of Personnel Psychology

A2 - Cartwright , Susan

A2 - Cooper , Cary L.

PB - Oxford University Press

CY - Oxford

ER -