Psychological characteristics associated with performence in entrepreneurial firms and smaller businesses

Begley, Thomas M.; Boyd, David P.

doi:10.1016/0883-9026(87)90020-6

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“…Koh (1996) reported a strong positive relationship between measures of ambiguity tolerance and an individual's entrepreneurial inclination. Begley and Boyd (1988) also reported that Ambiguity Tolerance in Career Decision Making 4 established entrepreneurs had higher ambiguity tolerance than the small business managers. Wagener, Gorgievski, and Rijsdijk (2010) and Schere (1982) supported ambiguity tolerance being a characteristic distinguishing entrepreneurs from managers as entrepreneurs will face more ambiguous and uncertain situations.…”

Section: Ambiguity Tolerancementioning

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The role of ambiguity tolerance in career decision making

Xu¹,

Tracey²

2014

Journal of Vocational Behavior

104

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The role of ambiguity tolerance in career decision making

Xu¹,

Tracey²

2014

Journal of Vocational Behavior

104

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“…In addition, the founder is willing to personally absorb the risks involved in starting a new business (Cooper and Dunkelberg, 1986). Several scholars further argue that founders show higher risk-taking than non-founders (Begley, 1995;Begley andBoyd, 1987 andHull et al, 1980). Based on the rather large variance among start-ups in the degree to which they have innovative versus imitative strategies (Samuelsson, 2001;Aldrich, 1999), one could argue that since many start-ups are imitative in nature, those should be excluded from the notion of entrepreneurship or at least viewed as a separate category.…”

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Business accomplishments, gender and entrepreneurial self-image

Verheul

Uhlaner

Thurik

2005

Journal of Business Venturing

160

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Drawing on Bem's psychological theory of self-perception, this paper presents and tests a model that examines the impact of business accomplishments and gender on entrepreneurial self-image and explores the definition of entrepreneurship according to Vesper's entrepreneurial typology. Regression techniques are used to identify those business accomplishments that university alumni associate with self-perceptions of entrepreneurship. Experience as a small business person (founding, running, and/or owning a small business) most clearly predicts entrepreneurial self-image. Results also support predictions of both direct and indirect effects of gender as well as direct effects of education and business degree. Results of a separate expert panel study are used to rank business accomplishments according to degree of entrepreneurship. Results of both studies reveal stark contrasts in the implied definition of entrepreneurship between entrepreneurship experts (academic and practitioner alike) and the general business community (as represented by the alumni). This raises questions about the meaning of the term "entrepreneurship", what the word "entrepreneur", in particular, conveys to the general public, and the implications for practice and future research.

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“…As stated in the introduction of this paper, while the literature has commonly referred to the innovating entrepreneur as a risk-taker (e.g. [2]), the implications of enactment developed above thus actively undermines this notion, by reconstructing the possibility of taking risk as being synonymous with taking a cup of tea. The treatment of the various factors below should be understood as an attempt at elucidating the transcendent components of risk and innovation.…”

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“…[2]). It is, to be sure, almost impossible to perceive of an entrepreneurial venture which does not imply risk-taking, and this basic insight puts the concepts of risk at the heart of understanding entrepreneurial and innovative activities.…”

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Enacting risk in independent technological innovation

Berglund¹,

Hellström²

2002

IJRAM

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Abstract:The present study aims at investigating the role of risk in the activity of independent technological venturing. Altogether 12 deep-interviews were conducted with technological entrepreneurs, who had taken part in the inventive, developmental and the commercialisation phases of a technologybased innovation process. The interviews revealed a number of enactment approaches through which these innovators encountered and affected (dealt with or transformed) risk within the innovation process. Factors thus developed from the empirical material included: human capital, pace and priority, the world moves, activating social networks, risk learning, risk incrementalism, maintaining venture agility, and creating and sustaining autonomy. The paper presents a theoretical contextualisation as to the significance of these factors, and finally suggests a number of ways in which these may be interpreted for the benefit of innovation management.

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Psychological characteristics associated with performence in entrepreneurial firms and smaller businesses

Cited by 882 publications

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The role of ambiguity tolerance in career decision making

The role of ambiguity tolerance in career decision making

Business accomplishments, gender and entrepreneurial self-image

Enacting risk in independent technological innovation

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