Let's put the person back into entrepreneurship research: A meta-analysis on the relationship between business owners' personality traits, business creation, and success

By Andreas Rauch, Michael Frese. 2007

1,807 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/3f19e58518edddd8efd15d832fc3558204bf6ebb

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Clinical Psychology

In Management of Technology and Innovation

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

Citations in the corpus

Biology and Selection into Entrepreneurship—The Relevance of Prenatal Testosterone Exposure (2016, methodology): “Summarizing our arguments and consistent with prior entrepreneurship research, such as Baum et al. (2001) and Rauch and Frese (2007), we suggest that the effective risk-taking propensity is a result of a possibly dispositional general risk-taking propensity adjusted by various domain-specific…”
Personality aspects of entrepreneurship: A look at five meta-analyses. (2011, positive): “Most of the studies published during the past two decades have already been reviewed in previous meta-analyses (Rauch & Frese, 2007; Stewart & Roth, 2001; Zhao & Seibert, 2006; Zhao, Seibert, & Lumpkin, 2010, on personality including risk propensity; Collins, Hanges, & Locke, 2004; Stewart & Roth,…”
Creativity, self-efficacy, and small-firm performance: the mediating role of entrepreneurial orientation (2015, background): “Recurrent debates in the literature associate the personal traits of business owners (Baum and Locke 2004; Poon et al. 2006; Rauch and Frese 2007) with firm-level entrepreneurial orientation (EO) (Poon et al. 2006; Wiklund et al. 2009) and small-firm performance.”
Review of skill and the entrepreneurial process (2013, background): “However a further cautionary note should be sounded; these researchers found that the relationship between human capital and entrepreneurial success was smaller than the latter and personality (Rauch and Frese, 2007a) or entrepreneurial orientation (Rauch et al., 2009).”
A Qualitative Approach to Evidence–Based Entrepreneurship: Theoretical Considerations and an Example Involving Business Clusters (2014, background): “For example, one meta-analysis compared broad and narrow task-related traits, and thereby shifted the focus of the personality approach to entrepreneurship (Rauch & Frese, 2007).”
Let’s Focus on Solutions to Entrepreneurial Ill-Being! Recovery Interventions to Enhance Entrepreneurial Well-Being (2021, background): “Moreover, entrepreneurs tend to be strongly achievement- oriented, seeking challenges and success (e.g., wanting to be the “best”; Rauch & Frese, 2007).”
A Cross-Cultural Approach to Understanding Entrepreneurial Intention (2012, background): “In fact, self-efficacy has replaced PBC in numerous studies (Kolvereid & Isaksen, 2006; Krueger et al., 2000; Moriano, 2005; van Gelderen et al., 2008), and a recent meta-analysis showed that it is strongly positively related to business creation and entrepreneurial success (Rauch & Frese, 2007).”
Entrepreneurs’ Mental Health and Well-Being: A Review and Research Agenda (2018, background): “The high levels of autonomy and uncertainty likely allow entrepreneurs to uniquely shape their work setting and business in line with their personality (Rauch & Frese, 2007).”
A Dialectic Perspective on Innovation: Conflicting Demands, Multiple Pathways, and Ambidexterity (2009, background): “This would be an aspect of managing or regulating one’s personality (Rauch & Frese, 2007).”