The Influence of Proactive Personality and Stereotype Threat on Women's Entrepreneurial Intentions

By Vishal K. Gupta, Nachiket Bhawe. 2007

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Managing to clear the air: Stereotype threat, women, and leadership (2016, background): “…the tendency to take action to change one's circumstances) are more likely to become entrepreneurs, research showed that women with higher levels of proactive personality were more likely to show deleterious threat responses than women with less proactive personalities (Gupta & Bhawe, 2007).”
Entrepreneurial intention: the role of gender (2010, background): “Also, there is evidence that those women with a proactive personality are significantly affected by exposure to the common ‘masculine’ stereotype about entrepreneurs and, thereby, suffer a significant decrease in entrepreneurial intentions ( Gupta and Bhawe 2007 ).”
A Conceptual Model of Social Entrepreneurial Intention Based on the Social Cognitive Career Theory (2016, background): “Entrepreneurial intention is also considered as a mental process that orients and directs individuals’ planning as well as implementing business plans (Boyz and Vozikis, 1994; Gupta and Bhawe, 2007).”
Gender and Entrepreneurship as a Career Choice (2010, background): “In a study of business students in the United States, India and Turkey, Gupta et al. (2009) demonstrated that respondents in all three contexts strongly associate entrepreneurship with stereotypically masculine characteristics.”
Is Stereotype Threat a Useful Construct for Organizational Psychology Research and Practice? (2014, background): “Interestingly, research on individual differences has suggested that people with a high internal locus of control and a highly proactive personality may react more strongly to cues in the environment that suggest stereotype threat (Cadinu, Maass, Lombardo, & Frigerio, 2006; Gupta & Bhawe, 2007).”
Creativity, Proactive Personality and Entrepreneurial Intentions: Examining the Mediating Role of Entrepreneurial Self-efficacy (2019, methodology): “Proactive personality plays a crucial role in producing favourable outcome, especially under challenging and unfavourable situations (Gupta & Bhawe, 2007).”