A proclivity for entrepreneurship

The perceived personal characteristics of entrepreneurial leaders

“…This proposition builds on several assumptions: (i) that personal characteristics, traits or individual differences affect entrepreneur or leader performance (e.g., Judge, et al, 2002;Stewart, Watson, Carland, & Carland, 1999;Zaccaro, 2012), (ii) that perceptions or implicit theories of entrepreneurs and leaders influence followers and; (iii) that entrepreneurial leadership can be understood as the intersection of leadership and entrepreneurship (e.g., Cogliser & Brigham, 2004;Deluca, 2003;Vecchio, 2003) and consequently studies identifying characteristics common to leaders and entrepreneurs (e.g., Fernald, et al, 2005a;Perren, 2002) provide a useful way to delineate this new concept. Fernald, et al (2005a) and Perren (2002) used content analysis of research studies to identify characteristics shared by leaders and entrepreneurs.…”

Relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance in large organizations over time

“…Several other influential research studies were also conducted in the same period of time to study the link between personality and entrepreneurship (Collins and Moore, 1964;Smith, 1967). Over the last four decades, a large array of psychological characteristics has been examined as possible causes of entrepreneurial performance (Welsh et al, 1978;Welsch & Young, 1982, Sexton & Bowman, 1986Churchill and Lewis, 1986;Sandberg, 1986Goldberg, 1990Herron and Robinson, 1993;Miner, 1996, Stewart et al, 1999Rauch and Frese, 2000;Zacharakis et al, 2003;Breen, 2004;Ciavarella et al, 2004;Thurik and Wennekers, 2004).…”

Entrepreneurial intention: the role of gender

“…pregnancy and maternity leave, role stress) in comparison with being an employee (Rouse 2005;Wincent and Ortqvist 2008). Another reason might be the fact that women have fewer female role models (Stewart et al 1998). According to this evidence, it is proposed that:…”