Towards More Specific Personality Research in Entrepreneurship: Relating Conscientiousness Facets to Venture Performance

Francisco J. Conejo, J. Khuntia, Madhavan Parthasarathy
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Purpose. The literature has long recognized the importance of the conscientious entrepreneurial personality. This study explores how seven of its facets/sub-dimensions (Achievement-Striving, Efficiency, Responsibility, Industriousness, Self-Control, Conventionality, and Persistence) relate to three performance outcomes (Ventures Started, Years at Current Venture, and Annual Sales.)Design/methodology/approach. 166 active entrepreneurs were surveyed via an entrepreneurship center at a Western US university. Data was then modeled via Ordinary Least Squares to obtain regression estimates for the dependent variables.Findings. Counter to expectations, results indicate that facet measures relate very differently in terms of magnitude, direction, and significance to the performance outcomes. These more nuanced relations are lost when using broad/aggregate dimensional measures.Research implications. Broad personality measures, as conventionally used, are suboptimal for entrepreneurial research as they potentially yield misleading results. Studies should instead apply the more-specific facet measures, which offer more accurate personality assessments. Practical implications. Practitioners should also use the more-specific facet measures. Doing so will be of value across a variety of public, private, and educational settings.Originality/Value. For decades, entrepreneurship has addressed the effects of broad/aggregate personality dimensions. This article is the first to approach the entrepreneurial personality from a more-specific facet level, an approach offering substantial research opportunities.
走向创业中更具体的人格研究:将责任心方面与创业绩效联系起来
目的。文献很早就认识到有责任心的企业家人格的重要性。本研究探讨了它的七个方面/子维度(成就-奋斗,效率,责任,勤奋,自我控制,传统和坚持)如何与三个绩效结果(已启动的项目,当前项目的年数和年销售额)相关。美国西部一所大学的创业中心对166名活跃的企业家进行了调查。然后通过普通最小二乘法对数据进行建模,以获得因变量的回归估计。与预期相反,结果表明,就量级、方向和对绩效结果的重要性而言,facet测量与绩效结果的关系非常不同。当使用广义/聚合维度度量时,这些更细微的关系就丢失了。研究的意义。通常使用的广义人格测量方法在创业研究中并不理想,因为它们可能会产生误导性的结果。相反,研究应该采用更具体的方面测量,这可以提供更准确的性格评估。实际意义。从业者还应该使用更具体的关节面测量方法。这样做在各种公共、私人和教育环境中都是有价值的。几十年来,企业家精神一直致力于解决广泛/总体人格维度的影响。这篇文章是第一个从更具体的层面来研究企业家人格的文章,这种方法提供了大量的研究机会。
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