A personality approach to entrepreneurship
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The Oxford Handbook of Personnel Psychology . ed. / Susan Cartwright ; Cary L. Cooper . 1. ed. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009. p. 121-136.
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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 -