Founder Personalities, Behaviors and New Venture Success in Sub-Saharan Africa

Rashid, Lubna; Alzafari, Khaled; Kratzer, Jan

doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2019.119766

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“…Our results also suggest that a descendant entrepreneur with openness trait (i.e., intellectually curious, inventive, unorthodox) may contribute more toward the successful succession of small family businesses (H1a is accepted). The results of hypothesis H1a is consistent with the findings of Rashid et al (2020) , Botero et al (2021) , and Zhou et al (2022) . Botero et al (2021) revealed that the openness personality trait has a significant relationship with job performance.…”

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“… Botero et al (2021) revealed that the openness personality trait has a significant relationship with job performance. Zhou et al (2022) found that openness trait entrepreneurs have a significant association with financial and business growth performance and the success of small and local businesses ( Rashid et al, 2020 ). Retail small family businesses expanding their operation’s diversity and introducing innovative products in a developing country like Pakistan may increase their profitability and expand customer segments.…”

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Does congruence between a descendant entrepreneur’s personality traits and family business values matter for succession?

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PurposeIn this paper, we investigate two research queries pertaining to the success of small family business succession. First, we examine how the Big-5 personality traits of descendant entrepreneurs influence the success of their family business succession. Second, we investigate whether descendant entrepreneurs whose personality traits are congruent with the values of their family business, would lead to the success of their family business succession, through the mediating role of descendant entrepreneur-family business value congruence (DE-FBVC).MethodologyWe rely on the person-organization fit theory for our conceptual framework and we collected primary data from 124 respondents designated as chairman and managing directors in small family businesses.ResultsOur results show that a descendant entrepreneur’s openness, extroversion, conscientiousness, and agreeableness traits are likely to lead to successful family business succession, but a descendant entrepreneur with neuroticism trait is unlikely to do so. In addition, our results reveal that the DE-FBVC mediates the relationship between openness and extroversion traits with succession success positively, but between neuroticism trait and succession success negatively. By contrast, we find that DE-FBVC does not mediate the relationship between conscientiousness and agreeableness traits with succession success.OriginalityThe findings of our study suggest that while four of the Big-5 personality traits matter for the success of small family business succession, specific personality traits of descendant entrepreneurs which are found to be congruent with the values of their family business, will also lead to succession success.

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Does congruence between a descendant entrepreneur’s personality traits and family business values matter for succession?

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“…Previous research has already emphasized the importance of individual characteristics of the founding entrepreneur for entrepreneurial success [17] and IE [4,18,19]. Not surprisingly, well-established concepts in the IE literature like entrepreneurial orientation (EO) or a global mindset consist of cognitive elements [5].…”

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Do Immigrant Entrepreneurs Have Natural Cognitive Advantages for International Entrepreneurial Activity?

Middermann

2020

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Are entrepreneurs with an immigration background more willing to internationalize their entrepreneurial firms compared to their nonimmigrant peers? Previous research has already emphasized that immigrant entrepreneurs possess superior human resources and social capabilities—such as international experience, networks and language skills—that help them to better identify and evaluate international entrepreneurial opportunities. However, literature other than capability-based explanations is rare, and thus it is not yet understood in what sense immigrant entrepreneurs differ from other entrepreneurs in terms of their cognitive characteristics for international entrepreneurial activity. This study addresses this gap by involving a quantitative study of Berlin-based high-tech founding entrepreneurs to empirically investigate how immigrant entrepreneurs vary in their cognitive characteristics, and how this affects their intention to engage in international entrepreneurship. The findings show that immigrant entrepreneurs possess higher levels of proactive behavior, which lead to a more favorable evaluation of international business opportunities, and in turn positively affect the willingness to engage in international entrepreneurial activity. This contributes to a deeper understanding of immigrant entrepreneurs’ natural cognitive advantages and the role they play for entrepreneurial growth, success and national economic development.

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“…In the past, many researchers explore the relationship between individual personality and social behaviours (Manaf et al , 2018; Ali, 2019). Furthermore, Rashid et al (2020) attempt to explain the differences in people's job performance and career achievement by individuals' personality traits. However, those research studies collect users personality by self-reported questionnaires, which are costly and may result in some degree of response subjectivity.…”

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How user personality and information characteristics influence the creative information quality on open innovation platforms: an elaboration likelihood model

Zhou

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Zhao

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PurposeLarge volumes of users' creative information have rapidly become vital resources in the open innovation platforms, so it is crucial to identify high-quality information from massive creative information. However, the existing literature on the quality of creative information only focuses on the information characteristics or publishers' features.Design/methodology/approachIn this paper, the authors used the elaboration likelihood model to examine the joint effect of central route factors (information characteristics: timeliness, readability and sentiment) and peripheral route factors (source characteristics: personality traits, past successful experiences and social network location) on the quality of creative information. Furthermore, the author explored the moderating roles of companies' support between central and peripheral route factors on the quality of creative information. Finally, binary logistic regression was adopted to test the research hypotheses on the empirical data from Salesforce.FindingsThe results indicated that users with high extroversion, conscientiousness, social centrality and prior success rate tended to propose high-quality information. Meanwhile, information timeliness, readability and sentiment also negatively influence the quality of creative information.Originality/valueDifferent from previous studies, the study findings not only provide insights on identifying the quality of creative information from an information perspective, but also promotes the awareness of the intrinsic personality traits of information users and innovative support efforts by platforms and their managers.

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Founder Personalities, Behaviors and New Venture Success in Sub-Saharan Africa

Cited by 16 publications

References 89 publications

Does congruence between a descendant entrepreneur’s personality traits and family business values matter for succession?

Does congruence between a descendant entrepreneur’s personality traits and family business values matter for succession?

Do Immigrant Entrepreneurs Have Natural Cognitive Advantages for International Entrepreneurial Activity?

How user personality and information characteristics influence the creative information quality on open innovation platforms: an elaboration likelihood model

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