An Investigation into the Effect that Personal Traits of Entrepreneurs Have on the Identification Entrepreneurial Opportunity

摘要：

Entrepreneurship research has both academic and practical significance. This article analyzes the influence of entrepreneur personalities over the recognition of entrepreneurial opportunity based on PSED II data about American nascent entrepreneurs. Trying to demonstrate that entrepreneurs with different personalities will identify the entrepreneurial opportunity through different ways, the article abstracts three personality dimensions including innovative orientation, locus of control and ambiguity tolerance, and divides each dimension into high score group and low score group on the basis of its average score. Empirical analysis shows that the impact of American entrepreneur personalities on the recognition of entrepreneurial opportunity is almost negligible.

关键词： Entrepreneur Personality Entrepreneurial Opportunity Recognition

作者: CHENG Zhihui TIAN Bifei LU Liang

作者单位: Economics and Management School, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China Business Administration School, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, 430073

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2009 International SME Development Forum(2009 中小企业发展国际论坛)

会议地点: 北京

会议语种:英文

页码: 646-653

在线出版日期: 2009-10-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）