Person-entrepreneurship fit: why some people are more successful as entrepreneurs than others

By Gideon D. Markman, Robert A. Baron. 2003

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

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Citations in the corpus

The Role of Gender Stereotypes in Perceptions of Entrepreneurs and Intentions to Become an Entrepreneur (2009, background): “Considerable evidence indicates that individuals are attracted to tasks and jobs that are perceived as requiring characteristics similar to their own (Markman & Baron, 2003).”
The Dark Triad and Nascent Entrepreneurship: An Examination of Unproductive versus Productive Entrepreneurial Motives (2016, background): “…examining whether the dark triad is an adaptive set of personality characteristics for entrepreneurs in general (Kristof-Brown, Zimmerman, and Johnson 2005; Markman and Baron 2003) and within certain entrepreneurial contexts in particular (Hmieleski and Baron 2008; Hmieleski, Carr, and Baron 2015).”
The Relationship of Personality to Entrepreneurial Intentions and Performance: A Meta-Analytic Review (2010, background): “For example, Markman and Baron (2003) suggest that perseverance is called for by entrepreneurial work, while others have emphasized the importance of motivation, persistence, and hard work (e.g., Chen et al., 1998; Baum & Locke, 2004).”
Understanding the Dynamics of Nascent Entrepreneurship—Prestart‐Up Experience, Intentions, and Entrepreneurial Success (2015, background): “Creating an operational venture therefore requires substantial confidence in one’s abilities to face the challenges ahead and to persist when facing obstacles (Markman and Baron 2003).”
Entrepreneurial self‐efficacy and business start‐up: developing a multi‐dimensional definition (2010, background): “…for different subgroups, including male and female entrepreneurs (Scherer et al., 1989), entrepreneurs and managers (Chen et al., 1998; De Noble et al., 1999), technological entrepreneurs and inventors (Markman et al., 2002), and successful and unsuccessful entrepreneurs (Markman and Baron, 2003).”
ADHD-like behavior and entrepreneurial intentions (2013, background): “…role of both individual and environmental (or organizational) factors in determining career decisions and outcomes (KristofBrown et al., 2011; 2005; Kristof, 1996; Oh et al., 2013), including entrepreneurial intentions (Lee et al., 2011) and entrepreneurial performance (Markman and Baron, 2003).”
The Impact of Entrepreneurial Resilience on the Success of Small and Medium Enterprises in South Africa (2018, methodology): “In Reference [52], a Cronbach’s alpha of 0.85 was reported.”
Human Capital and Entrepreneurship Research: A Critical Review and Future Directions (2016, background): “…Hermann & Priem, 2011 Gimeno et al., 1997 Ndofor & Priem, 2011 Hallen, 2008 Human Resource Management Review Gruber et al., 2012 Sine & Lee, 2009 Markman & Baron, 2003 Journal of Management Entrepreneurship and Regional Journal of Business Venturing Studies Development Cooper et al., 1994…”
Exploring the strategic skills of farmers across a typology of farm diversification approaches (2010, background): “Hence, the questions of - not only social skills - but of skills implied by the perspective of social embeddedness (Jack and Anderson, 2002; Granovetter, 2000) and of social capital (Markman and Baron, 2003) and human capital (McElwee, 2008) are most relevant in this connection.”
Entrepreneurship Education And Training In A Small Business Context: Insights From The Competence-Based Approach (2008, background): “Although several frameworks are being developed to combine current thinking on entrepreneurship and competencies (e.g. Sullivan, 2000; Markman and Baron, 2003; Collins et al., 2006; Fuller-Love, 2006; Hayton and Kelley, 2006; Man, 2006), the concept of competence still seems to be surrounded by…”
The influence of socio-cultural environments on the performance of nascent entrepreneurs: Community culture, motivation, self-efficacy and start-up success (2012, background): “Creating an operational venture requires substantial confidence into one´s abilities to face the challenges ahead and to persist when facing obstacles (Markman and Baron, 2003).”
Entrepreneurial Success: An Exploratory Study among Entrepreneurs (2010, background): “Other characteristics of successful entrepreneurs include high self-efficacy, opportunity recognition, perseverance and social skills (Markman and Baron, 2003).”
Enterprise Ritual: A Theory of Entrepreneurial Emotion and Exchange (2008, neutral): “Where emotion has been acknowledged, it has generally merited a passing reference or incidental comment rather than detailed investigation (e.g., Baron, 1998; Shane et al, 2003; Markman and Baron, 2003)(1).”