The Big Five and venture survival: Is there a linkage?

Personality Traits of Entrepreneurs: A Review of Recent Literature

“…Ciavarella et al (2004) find that high conscientiousness is positively related to long-term venture survival (eight years or more), compared to a negative relationship for the entrepreneur's openness to experience and no relationship for the other Big-5 personality traits.…”

Towards a new framework for SMEs success: a literature review

“…Karaev et al (2007), in their review of the effect of a cluster approach on SMEs (based on 250 articles and 50 conference papers), also conclude that entering into cooperative relations with other SMEs and related partner institutions has a positive effect on competitiveness. Prior studies further suggest that business networks show their positive effects in the long term reinforcing their impact on long term survival (Baum and Locke, 2004;Chrisman and McMuUan, 2004;Ciavarella et al, 2004;Frank et al, 2007;Korunka et al, 2004). Besser and Miller (2011) distinguish between business networks based on contractual arrangements, such as joint ventures, alliances and supply chains and networks which are formal, membership organisations such as industry associations and regional business associations.…”

Relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance in large organizations over time

“…Several other influential research studies were also conducted in the same period of time to study the link between personality and entrepreneurship (Collins and Moore, 1964;Smith, 1967). Over the last four decades, a large array of psychological characteristics has been examined as possible causes of entrepreneurial performance (Welsh et al, 1978;Welsch & Young, 1982, Sexton & Bowman, 1986Churchill and Lewis, 1986;Sandberg, 1986Goldberg, 1990Herron and Robinson, 1993;Miner, 1996, Stewart et al, 1999Rauch and Frese, 2000;Zacharakis et al, 2003;Breen, 2004;Ciavarella et al, 2004;Thurik and Wennekers, 2004).…”