General versus specific personality traits for predicting entrepreneurship

Work Engagement: Organizational Attribute or Personality Trait?

“…The results show that the Big Five-type general personality traits had some predictive capacity over work engagement (Bakker et al, 2012;Bhatti et al, 2018;Hau & Bing, 2018;Martos Martínez et al, 2021;Zaidi et al, 2013), although that capacity improved notably when specific traits of enterprising personality were also used. These results are consistent with previous studies (Leutner et al, 2014;Postigo et al, 2021;Rauch & Frese, 2007) that showed how the evaluation of more specific behaviors more accurately expressed a specific behavioral description and could predict criteria that were closely linked to that description (John et al, 2008;Soto & John, 2017). This indicates, then, that people who are more autonomous and more innovative (see Cuesta et al, 2018), with certain tendencies towards intra-entrepreneurialism (Mumford et al, 2021), tend to be more committed to their work and make more efforts to improve organizational results (Harter et al, 2002;Ruiz-Zorrilla et al, 2020).…”

“…Personality traits can be measured at different levels of conceptual breadth (Soto & John, 2017). A broad character trait can summarize a large amount of behavioral information and predict a wide range of important criteria, whereas more restricted trait measures more accurately express a specific behavioral description and can predict criteria that are closely linked to that description (John et al, 2008;Postigo et al, 2021). This is why it is important to distinguish between studies focusing on broad, Big Five-type, personality traits and those which use more specific personality traits.…”

The key enablers of competitive advantage formation in small and medium enterprises: The case of the Ha’il region

“…Therefore, the ability to act quickly and decisively is critically important for success in entrepreneurship. Kritikos (2022) , Tsaknis et al (2022) , and Postigo et al (2021) studies that looked at the connection between personality and entrepreneurship found that how open someone is to new ideas is a big part of whether or not they will be successful as an entrepreneur.…”

Curious enough to start up? How epistemic curiosity and entrepreneurial alertness influence entrepreneurship orientation and intention

“…Along with conscientiousness and neuroticism (negatively correlated), openness to experience has shown a significant association with starting a new business (Frese and Gielnik, 2014). Nevertheless, there is reasonable concern that broad personality traits might not be optimal for predicting entrepreneurial outcomes (Postigo et al, 2021). Rauch and Frese (2007) argued that the predicting traits should be matched to entrepreneurial tasks and showed in a meta-analysis that narrow personality traits, like innovativeness, proactive personality, and risk propensity, were better predictors for entrepreneurship than broad personality dimensions (Leutner et al, 2014).…”