Entrepreneurs Personality Traits

Title Country Objectives of the Research Respondents Statistical

Study Design Tools
The Big Five Slovenia In this study, we Qualitative 546 Individuals multi-
Personality– address this issue by from Slovenia nominal
EntrepreneurshipR investigating the logistic
elationship: psychological regression
Evidence from determinants of real-
Slovenia life entrepreneurial
start-up decisions and
intentions by
contrasting
entrepreneurs and non-
entrepreneurs as
regards the big five
personality factors
(openness,
conscientiousness,
extraversion,
agreeableness, and
neuroticism).
The Relationship United This study contributes Qualitative 229 Structural
of Entrepreneurial States to the revival of Entrepreneurs equation
Traits, Skill, and interest in and 106 modeling
Motivation to understanding the Associates Structural
Subsequent effects of equation
Venture Growth entrepreneurs' personal modeling
characteristic
Personality and Denmark This study investigates Qualitative 1287 Freshmen confirmatory
Individual the conceptual overlap n (age M = factor
Differences and distinction 21.71; 64% analyses
between individual women) who
differences in the completed
FiveFactor Model and electronic
Self-Determination questionnaires
Theory. of dispositional
personality
traits (NEO-
FFI) and
general
causality
orientations
(GCOS).
The Effect of Malaysia This study examines Quantitative 391 systematic
Entrepreneurial the relationship of respondents random
Leadership entrepreneurial participated in sampling
Towards leadership and this study by technique
Organizational organizational implementing
Performance performance. the systematic
random
sampling
technique from
a total of
 645,136 SME
owners in
Malaysia

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