Personality and entrepreneurial leadership:: A study of the heads of the UK's most successful independent companies
Through an empirical study of the heads of the UK's top independent companies, comparing them with sample norms and a management control group, the paper re-examines the question of whether there is an entrepreneurial leadership personality profile. Several distinctive features are reported and discussed. Contrary to common stereotypes, the leaders are not open-minded risk-takers so much as single-minded, thick-skinned, dominating individuals. Results are discussed within the frame of the new discipline of evolutionary psychology.
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1998
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Authors: | Nicholson, Nigel |
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European Management Journal. - Elsevier, ISSN 0263-2373. - Vol. 16.1998, 5, p. 529-539
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Elsevier |
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