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The Big Five Personality–Entrepreneurship Relationship: Evidence from Slovenia

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  • Bostjan Antoncic
  • Tina Bratkovic kregar
  • Gangaram Singh
  • Alex F. Denoble

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Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship are important for new wealth creation and economic development. Yet insufficient attention has been paid in entrepreneurship research to psychological characteristics such as the big five personality characteristics. In this study, we address this issue by investigating the psychological determinants of real‐life entrepreneurial start‐up decisions and intentions by contrasting entrepreneurs and non‐entrepreneurs as regards the big five personality factors (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism). Using data collected via face‐to‐face structured interviews with 546 individuals from lovenia, we tested hypotheses using multi‐nominal logistic regression (supplemented by ).

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  • Bostjan Antoncic & Tina Bratkovic kregar & Gangaram Singh & Alex F. Denoble, 2015. "The Big Five Personality–Entrepreneurship Relationship: Evidence from Slovenia," Journal of Small Business Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 53(3), pages 819-841, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ujbmxx:v:53:y:2015:i:3:p:819-841
    DOI: 10.1111/jsbm.12089
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