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The Relationship between Personality Traits and Entrepreneurial Intentions

Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management Journal

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Title The Relationship between Personality Traits and Entrepreneurial Intentions
 
Creator Javan, Rahman Sadeghi; Department of Business Management, University of Tehran, Iran
 
Subject Personality, personality traits, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship dimensions, University of Isfahan
 
Description This article was aimed to studying impact of personality traits on intention to entrepreneurship. In order to examining personality traits, the big five model has been used that consists of five dimensions as extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and openness to experience. Entrepreneurship has been consists of six dimensions as hardworking, risk-taking, self-confidence, creativity, flexibility, and tolerance of ambiguity. In order to collecting data, a questionnaire including 47 items has been designed. Statistical population is university of Isfahan’s personnel and sample size is 160 personnel and selected based on available sampling method. In order to analyzing data, descriptive statistic, inferential statistics, ENTER method, and Durbin-Watson test has been used. But also to measuring stability of questionnaires’ items, Cronbach's alpha has been calculated for each variable separately. The results of this article indicate that personality traits have impact on tendency to entrepreneurship. Based on these results between all personality traits, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience have impact on tendency to entrepreneurship and these factors could explain 0/533 of entrepreneurship regression. Also Durbin- Watson test results indicate that there is no self-correlation between independent variables. Finally empirical suggestions has been offered for human resources managers and related professionals.
 
Publisher Academy of Business & Scientific Research
 
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Date 2014-02-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://absronline.org/journals/index.php/eimj/article/view/141
 
Source Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management Journal; Vol 2, No 1 (2014): February; pp. 22-33
2311-1836
2310-00079
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://absronline.org/journals/index.php/eimj/article/view/141/162
 
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