-prone personality. By using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we show that at least three prototypes can be identified … entrepreneurs. In the context of entrepreneurship, profiling should therefore only be seen as a first step on the way from the usual …Based on a trait-oriented approach, Big Five personality traits have been repeatedly shown to affect entrepreneurial …

Personality is a key driver of self-employment decisions. For this reason, the personality traits of entrepreneurs or … craft entrepreneurs from other types of entrepreneurship. The paper concludes with implications for policy and research. … entrepreneur - as a classic form of strategic entrepreneurship. Based on a large, representative German household panel data set …

Is there an entrepreneurial personality and does it appear early in life? We provide a new answer on this question by … also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship. …

Is there an entrepreneurial personality and does it appear early in life? We provide a new answer on this question by … also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship. …

reveals that the personality traits that make entrepreneurship profitable are not always the same traits driving people to … do not attract talented-but-reluctant entrepreneurs, but instead attract individuals with personality traits associated … entrepreneurship. Previous work has recognized that workers may opt for self-employment due to the nonpecuniary benefits of running a …

closer look at this issue by examining the personality characteristics of business owners. Our results confirm that an … individual's personality affects the likelihood of self-employment, but certain traits have a different effect in the case of … human personality. Thus, personality traits can influence self-employment decisions differently, depending on the sector or …

The scholarly literature often distinguishes between so-called opportunity and necessity entrepreneurship and between … of their (1) socioeconomic characteristics, (2) personality, and (3) perceptions of entrepreneurial support. Descriptive … statistics reveal that the two groups of business owners have very different profiles along these three dimensions. Moreover …

A striking fact about entrepreneurship is that the number of male entrepreneurs greatly exceed the number of female … personality traits can explain a modest part of the gender gap in entrepreneurship: our estimates suggest 21%-32%. We also … document that personality traits that distinguish entrepreneurs from others are generally not more prevalent among the non …