Identifying personality traits associated with entrepreneurial success: does gender matter?

Hachana, Rym; Berraies, Sarra; Ftiti, Zied

doi:10.3917/jie.027.0169

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“…Costa and McCrae's (1992) (Antoncic, Bratkovic, Singh, & DeNoble, 2015;H. Zhao et al, 2010), entrepreneurial opportunity identification (Ardichvili, Cardozo, & Ray, 2003), venture performance (Hachana et al, 2018;H. Zhao et al, 2010;L.…”

Section: 2personality and Behavior In Entrepreneurshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Meanwhile over the last two decades, personality in business research has been largely investigated through the Five Factor Model (FFM) which posits five basic dimensions of human personality commonly known as the big five, namely Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Emotional Stability (Barrick & Mount, 1991;Costa & McCrae, 1992;Gosling, Rentfrow, & Swann, 2003;McCrae & Costa, 2003). With relation to entrepreneurial success, however, scholars have thus far primarily focused on the founder personality's relationship to measures of firm performance (Ciavarella, Buchholtz, Riordan, Gatewood, & Stoke, 2004;Hachana, Berraies, & Ftiti, 2018;Matyka, Jung, & Kratzer, 2012; H. Zhao, Seibert, & Lumpkin, 2010;L. Zhao & Jung, 2018;M.…”

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

Rashid

Alzafari

Kratzer

2020

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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Facing heightened levels of political instability and institutional fragility, several sub-Saharan African countries have been responding with innovation policies and entrepreneurship support structures. With little scholarly knowledge on who those entrepreneurs are at an individual level, however, the ability to effectively support innovative new ventures in some of the world's most compromised regions would remain limited. Based on a sample of 232 entrepreneurs, this study attempts to enlighten the relationship between personality characteristics of entrepreneurs and their behaviors and subsequent success. This study thereby extends the entrepreneurship literature applying the Five-Factor Model of Personality to a new context while enriching knowledge on the personality-behavior relationship in entrepreneurship. Several findings and theoretical concepts are synthesized while evaluating new venture success from a behavioral lens among largely innovative, social-driven entrepreneurs in sub-Saharan countries, providing important implications for research, policy, and practice.

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Section: 2personality and Behavior In Entrepreneurshipmentioning

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

Rashid

Alzafari

Kratzer

2020

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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“…Recent primary studies are largely in line with these metaanalytic findings and further demonstrate that the Big Five traits relate to a wider range of entrepreneurial success criteria, including sales and profitability growth or return on equity (Hachana et al, 2018). In this investigation, we build upon the reported findings and assume a direct link between the Big Five traits and entrepreneurial status as well as performance.…”

Section: Entrepreneurship and Big Five Traitsmentioning

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Being Smart Is Not Enough: Personality Traits and Vocational Interests Incrementally Predict Intention, Status and Success of Leaders and Entrepreneurs Beyond Cognitive Ability

Bergner

2020

Front. Psychol.

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Three separate studies demonstrate that socio-emotional skills add incremental validity beyond cognitive ability when predicting leadership and entrepreneurship intention, emergence as well as success. Study 1 uses a longitudinal approach and tests the cognitive ability and vocational interests of 231 students to predict their leadership and entrepreneurship intention. It demonstrates that cognitive ability predicts their intention to become a business leader or entrepreneur 2 years in the future. Importantly, the vocational interests "enterprising" and "social" increase this ability-driven prediction of leadership and entrepreneurship intention (R 2 Lead.Intent. = 15%, R 2 Entre.Intent. = 9%). Study 2 investigates 123 business leaders and shows that those with higher cognitive ability more likely emerge as top-level leaders, receive more income and get slightly better supervisor-ratings on their performance. The leaders' Big Five traits (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, emotional stability) added validity beyond cognitive ability when predicting these criteria (R 2 Income = 9%, R 2 Lead.Level = 8%, R 2 Perform. = 15%). Finally, Study 3 includes 155 participants and demonstrates that cognitive ability predicts a person's entrepreneurial status but not performance. Additionally, considering the Big Five traits improves the prediction of who becomes an entrepreneur and successfully performs as such (R 2 Status = 7%, R 2 Perform. = 18%). Importantly, selected Big Five traits and vocational interests boost the importance of cognitive ability in the field of leadership and entrepreneurship. Concluding, this series of studies suggests that it is the combination of personality traits or interests with cognitive ability which is most powerful when predicting leadership and entrepreneurship intention, emergence and success.

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“…In addition, an evaluation of the applicant's personality is also included as one of the facets to be evaluated. Earlier researchers have already emphasized various types of entrepreneurial behaviors, which can lead to the success of entrepreneurs (Ahmad & Kadir, 2013;Hachana, Berraies, & Ftiti, 2018). Personality evaluation is not an easy task because it requires a nondefined approach based on different individual experiences and perspectives (de-Juan-Ripoll et al, 2018; Youyou, Kosinski, & Stillwell, 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%