How does action-oriented personality traits impact on entrepreneurial career choices? A trait-factor theory perspective

Batool, Syeda Nimra; Razzaq, Khawar; Imam, Hassan

doi:10.1108/k-04-2022-0498

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“…It consists of five personality traits, which are: openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism . Personality plays a pivotal role in the development of concepts of entrepreneurship such as the entrepreneurial career choice ( Li et al, 2020 ; Batool et al, 2022 ), entrepreneurial cognitions ( Cai et al, 2021 ), entrepreneurial motivation ( Ismail, 2022 ), new venture survival ( Chen et al, 2017 ), entrepreneur’s intentions ( Farrukh et al, 2017 ), business performance ( Hachana et al, 2018 ) and business life cycle ( Zapalska and Wingrove-Haugland, 2018 ). Notably, Rauch and Frese (2007) examined specific personality traits such as achievement motivation and locus of control as determinants of an entrepreneur’s intention, strategies, and activities that lead to business success ( Rauch and Frese, 2007 ).…”

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

2023

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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?

2023

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“…In addition, entrepreneurial intention can help individuals develop the skills and mindset necessary to succeed as entrepreneurs, such as creativity, critical thinking, and resilience. Therefore, entrepreneurial intention for Pakistani students is necessary to develop the skills and mindset necessary to succeed as an entrepreneur (Batool et al, 2022;Mahmood, 2016).…”

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Personality and Entrepreneurial Intentions of Final Year Business Students in Pakistan: The Mediating Role of Entrepreneurial Education and Social Norms

Sarwar¹,

Sami²,

Nauman³

2023

JEBV

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Personality traits and situational characteristics influence the level of entrepreneurial intention in individuals. This study investigated the relationship between the five-factor model of personality, entrepreneurial education, social norm and entrepreneurial intention of final-year business students. Based on the cognitive appraisal theory, the mediating role of entrepreneurial education and social norms was proposed between five personality factors and entrepreneurial intention. A cross-sectional and a quantitative research design was adopted. Data was collected by administrating a survey to final year bachelor of business management students of a public sector university. The data from 200 students was analyzed through partial least square structural equation modelling in SMART PLS 3. The results revealed that openness to experience, neuroticism, entrepreneurial education and social norms were significantly related to entrepreneurial intentions. Openness to experience and conscientiousness was related to entrepreneurial education, while openness to experience, conscientiousness and neuroticism were related to social norms. The mediation analysis revealed that entrepreneurial education and social norms mediate the relationship between openness to experience and conscientiousness with entrepreneurial intentions, while social norms negatively mediate the relationship between neuroticism and entrepreneurial intentions. Interestingly social norms and entrepreneurial education fully mediate the relationship between conscientiousness and entrepreneurial intentions. This study's findings have helped us to understand how social norms and entrepreneurial education shape the way different personality traits influence the entrepreneurial intention of students. Interventions to enhance the quality of entrepreneurial education and social norms supporting entrepreneurship would promote entrepreneurship among individual high in openness to experience and conscientiousness.

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“…While practical or pragmatic knowledge contributes to the repertoire of knowledge successfully applied by wise workers, wise employees rely on all forms of knowledge because workplace pragmatism refers to their ability to focus on a practical outcome achieved through a combination of all available resources. Previous research has already identified several benefits of pragmatic orientation (Neneh, 2019;Batool et al, 2023), and, therefore, every wise worker must exhibit some degree of workplace pragmatism (Rocha et al, 2022a(Rocha et al, , 2022b.…”

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Practical wisdom in the workplace: conceptualization, instrument development, and predictive power

Serenko

2024

JKM

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Purpose The purpose of this Real Impact Research Article is to empirically explore one of the most controversial and elusive concepts in knowledge management research – practical wisdom. It develops a 10-dimensional practical wisdom construct and tests it within the nomological network of counterproductive and productive knowledge behavior. Design/methodology/approach A survey instrument was created based on the extant literature. A model was developed and tested by means of Partial Least Squares with data obtained from 200 experienced employees recruited from CloudResearch Connect crowdsourcing platform. Findings Practical wisdom is a multidimensional construct that may be operationalized and measured like other well-established knowledge management concepts. Practical wisdom guides employee counterproductive and productive knowledge behavior: it suppresses knowledge sabotage and knowledge hiding (whether general, evasive, playing dumb, rationalized or bullying) and promotes knowledge sharing. While all proposed dimensions contribute to employee practical wisdom, particularly salient are subject matter expertise, moral purpose in decision-making, self-reflection in the workplace and external reflection in the workplace. Unexpectedly, practical wisdom facilitates knowledge hoarding instead of reducing it. Practical implications Managers should realize that possessing practical wisdom is not limited to a group of select, high-level executives. Organizations may administer the practical wisdom questionnaire presented in this study to their workers to identify those who score the lowest, and invest in employee training programs that focus on the development of those attributes pertaining to the practical wisdom dimensions. Originality/value The concept of practical wisdom is a controversial topic that has both detractors and supporters. To the best of the author’s knowledge, this is the first large-scale empirical study of practical wisdom in the knowledge management domain.

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How does action-oriented personality traits impact on entrepreneurial career choices? A trait-factor theory perspective

Cited by 5 publications

References 110 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?

Personality and Entrepreneurial Intentions of Final Year Business Students in Pakistan: The Mediating Role of Entrepreneurial Education and Social Norms

Practical wisdom in the workplace: conceptualization, instrument development, and predictive power

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