Gut ein Zehntel aller Erwerbstätigen in Deutschland ist selbständig, und nur eine von hundert Erwerbspersonen wagt …

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 … one of the most prominent determinants of entrepreneurship - education - and approximately three times larger than …

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 … one of the most prominent determinants of entrepreneurship - education - and approximately three times larger than …

Gut ein Zehntel aller Erwerbstätigen in Deutschland ist selbständig, und nur eine von hundert Erwerbspersonen wagt …

Based on a trait-oriented approach, Big Five personality traits have been repeatedly shown to affect entrepreneurial … entrepreneurship. Moreover, we compare prototyping with entrepreneurial profiling, another person-oriented approach to the Big Five …, which assumes that low levels of agreeableness and high levels of all other traits describe a particular entrepreneurship …

Personality is a key driver of self-employment decisions. For this reason, the personality traits of entrepreneurs or … entrepreneur - as a classic form of strategic entrepreneurship. Based on a large, representative German household panel data set …, we show that the entrepreneurial type mediates the effect of broad (Big Five) and narrow personality traits (locus of …