Personality Characteristics of Self-Employed; An Empirical Study

By Sjoerd Beugelsdijk, Niels Noorderhaven. 2005

177 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Business and International Management, Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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In Business and International Management

1. Katrin Burmeister-Lamp
2. Peter van der Zwan
3. Isabel Grilo
4. T. Lange
5. Roy Thurik
6. I. Verheul

In Economics and Econometrics

1. Roy Thurik
2. Isabel Grilo
3. Peter van der Zwan
4. I. Verheul
5. Joern H. Block
6. Y. Bilan
7. Katrin Burmeister-Lamp
8. T. Lange

In Management of Technology and Innovation

1. Roy Thurik
2. Isabel Grilo
3. Peter van der Zwan
4. I. Verheul
5. Katrin Burmeister-Lamp
6. T. Lange
7. Joern H. Block
8. David B. Audretsch

Citations in the corpus

• Explaining preferences and actual involvement in self-employment: Gender and the entrepreneurial personality (2012, background): “See Blanchflower et al. (2001), Grilo and Irigoyen (2006), or Grilo and Thurik (2005a) for a detailed discussion of the merits and drawbacks of this type of measure.”
• Job satisfaction and self-employment: autonomy or personality? (2012, methodology): “Beugelsdijk and Noorderhaven (2005) explain the absence of the latter by reference to similar retirement arrangements of the self-employed and salaried employees.”
• Latent and Actual Entrepreneurship in Europe and the US: Some Recent Developments (2005, background): “…explanations may be that in the area of personality characteristics there are principle differences between the self-employed and the salaried employed (Beugelsdijk and Noorderhaven, 2005) other than perceptions or that there are simply not enough business opportunities (Verheul et al., 2002).”
• Personal Characteristics of Entrepreneurs in the Context of Perception and Management of Business Risk in the Sme Segment (2015, background): “According to Beugelsdijk and Noorderhaven (2005), entrepreneurs differ from the general population and from paid employees in a lot of characteristics. They are more individually oriented; they have a greater individual responsibility and effort. In this context Omerzel and Kušce (2013) indicate tha”
• ADHD-like behavior and entrepreneurial intentions (2013, background): “2014) as well as the decision to become and stay self-employed (Beugelsdijk and Noorderhaven 2005; Caliendo et al. 2014), but has not taken an explicit psychiatric symptom perspective, which we do in our study.”