The big five personality dimensions and entrepreneurial status: a meta-analytical review.

By Hao Zhao, S. Seibert. Journal of Applied Psychology, 2006

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Entrepreneurial leadership, performance, and sustainability of micro-enterprises in Malaysia (2018, background): “Within the context of entrepreneurship, the significance of responsibility as part of a leader’s traits can be explained by the fact that entrepreneurs work within a relatively unstructured environment where they need to be wholly responsible for every aspect of the enterprise, such as sales, recrui”
Investment management and personality type (2008, background): “That the meta-analysis results from Zhao and Seibert (2006) involving entrepreneurial behavior was predicted by conscientiousness and openness to experience is also of interest.”
Human Capital and Search–Based Discovery: A Study of High–Tech Entrepreneurship (2013, background): “Although entrepreneurship research has examined behavioral propensities (Mosakowski, 1998) and personality traits (Zhao & Seibert, 2006) human capital is less person-centric.”
Trust, Positive Reciprocity, and Negative Reciprocity: Do These Traits Impact Entrepreneurial Dynamics? (2010, methodology): “Contrasting entrepreneurs with managers is the common approach in the psychological literature (see, for example, Zhao and Seibert, 2006).”
Optimism, overconfidence and entrepreneurial activity (2008, neutral): “This research has more clearly defined and modelled individual differences (Baum and Locke, 2004; Zhao and Seibert, 2006), and broadened its scope to include social cognitive concepts (McMullen and Shepherd, 2006; Mitchell et al.”
A Cross-Disciplinary Exploration of Entrepreneurship Research (2007, background): “The entrepreneurship-related work that has been published in top-tier psychology journals primarily deals with questions related to personality (Miner & Raju, 2004; Stewart & Roth, 2001, 2004; Zhao & Seibert, 2006).”
Entrepreneurship training, risk aversion and other personality traits: Evidence from a random experiment (2012, background): “These studies find some evidence that attitudes toward risk, entrepreneurial ability, preferences for autonomy, and locus of control are important in determining who starts and operates businesses (Caliendo, Fossen and Kritikos 2010b; Zhao and Seibert 2006).”
Entrepreneurship culture, knowledge spillovers and the growth of regions (2018, background): “…there is clear empirical evidence that individuals scoring high in extraversion (E), conscientiousness (C), openness (O), and low in agreeableness (A) as well in neuroticism (N) are more likely to become entrepreneurs and succeed in entrepreneurship (Brandstätter, 2011; Zhao & Seibert, 2006).”
Self-Leadership: A Process for Entrepreneurial Success (2007, background): “Zhao and Seibert (2006) conducted a meta-analysis on the relationship between the big five personality factors and entrepreneurship roles versus managerial roles and reported interesting results.”
Serendipity in Entrepreneurship (2009, background): “Studies of entrepreneur psychology have found that, in general, entrepreneurs score higher on the variable ‘openness to experience’ than managers (Zhao and Seibert 2006).”
Influence of personality and risk propensity on risk perception of Chinese construction project managers (2016, methodology): “3) Conscientiousness indicates people's degree of persistence, hard work, and motivation in pursuing and accomplishing goals (Barrick and Mount, 1991; Zhao and Seibert, 2006).”