A Meta‐Analysis of Achievement Motivation Differences between Entrepreneurs and Managers**

By Wayne H. Stewart, Philip L. Roth. 2007

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

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The Impact of Role Identities on Entrepreneurs’ Evaluation and Selection of Opportunities (2017, background): “…opportunity evaluation and selection; risk perceptions A long line of research demonstrates that distinct differences, such as risk propensity (Stewart & Roth, 2001, 2004), motivation (Stewart & Roth, 2007), or personality (Begley & Boyd, 1987), exist between entrepreneurs and other individuals.”
The Relationship of Personality to Entrepreneurial Intentions and Performance: A Meta-Analytic Review (2010, background): “For example, Stewart and Roth (2001, 2004) found entrepreneurs to be significantly higher in risk propensity than managers, and Collins, Hanges, and Locke (2004) and Stewart and Roth (2007) found entrepreneurs to be significantly higher on achievement motivation.”
Personality aspects of entrepreneurship: A look at five meta-analyses. (2011, background): “According to Zhao and Seibert (2006) entrepreneurs have substantially higher scores on Openness than managers. Zhao et al. (2010) report higher correlations of Openness with intention and performance than for the other Big Five dimensions.”
An Analysis of the Determinants of Entrepreneurial Intentions among Students: A Romanian Case Study (2016, background): “The entrepreneurs’ capacity of taking risks might be superior even to that of managers, who are known as risk lovers [51,52].”
Motivations: The Entrepreneurial Mind and Behavior (2009, background): “Recently, there has been renewed interest in this motivational concept (Collins et al., 2004; Langen-Fox and Roth, 1995; Tuuanaen, 1997; Steward and Roth, 2007; Lumpkin and Erdogan, 2004; Hart et al., 2007).”
Creative personality, opportunity recognition and the tendency to start businesses: A study of their genetic predispositions (2015, background): “…that of the relationship between the Big Five personality characteristics and entrepreneurship found by Zhao and Seibert (2006), the meta-analysis of entrepreneurship and achievement motivation by Stewart and Roth (2007), and between entrepreneurship and risk propensity by Stewart and Roth (2004).”
Leader individual differences, situational parameters, and leadership outcomes: A comprehensive review and integration (2017, unknown): “…on personality and motives (Bono & Judge, 2004; DeRue, Nahrgang, Wellman, & Humphrey, 2011; Judge, Bono, Ilies, & Gerhardt, 2002; Lord et al., 1986; Stewart & Roth, 2007), intelligence (Judge, Colbert, & Ilies, 2004), sex differences (Eagly, JohannesenSchmidt, & van Engen, 2003; Eagly & Johnson,…”
Relationship between individualist–collectivist culture and entrepreneurial activity: evidence from Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data (2011, background): “In conclusion, cultural differences lead to different behaviour patterns, which are a consequence of the fact that the motivations that drive individuals’ actions differ according to their culture (Baum et al. 1993) and their environment ( Stewart and Roth 2007 ).”