Personal characteristics of entrepreneurs in the context of perception and management of business risk in the SME segment

Abstract

Abstract. Th e issue of business in the segment of small and medium-sized companies is a very actual area of scientifi c research today. Currently, great importance is given to research of personal and knowledge preconditions of people for doing business. Th e aim of this article was to examine the relationship between personality characteristics and approach to the perception and management of business risks. Based on the preferred personality qualities and knowledge the entrepreneurs have been included into two categories, namely they are artist-entrepreneurs and businessmen-laborers, also the diff erences in their entrepreneurial attitudes have been examined. Both groups of entrepreneurs in our research rate market risk as the most important risk, which was demonstrated by a decline in performance of companies during the crisis. Our results showed that there are significant diff erences in the attitudes of these two categories of entrepreneurs in approaching credit risk, where it was found out that the defi ned categories of business have diff erent approaches to knowledge of credit conditions of commercial banks. Th e results of our study have showed a high degree of confi dence of individual groups of entrepreneurs when evaluating their ability to manage fi nancial risks in the company and the high intensity of entrepreneurial optimism regardless of the personal characteristics of entrepreneurs.

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