The Big Five personality traits and their influence on entrepreneurial action have been repeatedly studied using a … trait-based approach. The present paper partly deviates from this perspective by analysing the role of personality …

This paper contributes to the new literature on the role of personality for regional innovativeness by examining … personality traits, we find that only extraversion has a positive effect on patenting in German regions. Its impact is …

very limited and presents contradictory findings. The present study investigated the impact of the Big Five personality … statistically significant differences in personality-based interest were found between the three levels of government. An …

to their lack of resources and their individualized products and services. We argue that the unique personality of a … crafts owner is a missing link in the literature on the firm-level drivers of digitalization. Using the Big Five personality … model, data of 554 crafts SMEs and quantitative methods, our results provide evidence that the personality traits of …

personality dimensions, which is well suited for applications in large-scale multidisciplinary surveys. The BFI–S was assessed in … personality characteristics across early, middle, and late adulthood. Exploratory structural equation modeling was used in order … to test for measurement invariance of the five-factor model of personality trait domains across different assessment …

Evidence of assortative mating according to personality was reported in a previous SOEP-based study (Rammstedt & Schupp …, which increased with marriage duration. Almost 5000 of these couples were tracked over a five-year period with personality … assessed at the beginning and end of this time, which allowed us to investigate the relationship between personality congruence …

In Human Resource Management research it is often necessary to consider personality traits. In this article we describe … the adaptation of an English language short questionnaire to measure the 'Big Five' personality traits. The questionnaire …

This paper systematically investigates whether different kinds of personality characteristics influence entrepreneurial … and further personality characteristics, which are more specifically related to entrepreneurial tasks, influence entry …

Growing interest in using personality variables in economic research leads to the question whether personality as … measured by psychology is useful to predict economic behavior. Is it reasonable to expect values on personality scales to be … predictive of behavior in economic games? It is undoubted that personality can influence large-scale economic outcomes. Whether …