A Downside to the Entrepreneurial Personality?

By Danny Miller. 2015

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

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Mental disorders in the entrepreneurship context : When Being Different Can Be an Advantage (2018, background): “At this stage, research in entrepreneurship has focused on the upside of being an entrepreneur and on psychological variables, but “the negative aspects of the entrepreneurial personality have been largely ignored” (Miller, 2015: p. 1).”
"ADHD, Impulsivity and Entrepreneurship" (2017, background): “…achievement, need for independence, internal locus of control, and self-efficacy, suggesting that these traits enhance people's willingness to assume risk and uncertainty, and to persevere despite the many challenges entrepreneurs face (see Miller, 2015, 2016 for recent reviews of this literature).”
Personality trait differences across types of entrepreneurs: a systematic literature review (2021, background): “Increasingly, research is beginning to emphasize the potential “downsides” of 740 F. U. Salmony, D. K. Kanbach 1 3 entrepreneurial personalities (Miller 2015, 2016; Klotz and Neubaum 2016).”
Toward An Integration of the Behavioral and Cognitive Influences on the Entrepreneurship Process (2016, background): “Scholars have examined a number of personality traits in regard to entrepreneurs, including internal locus of control and tolerance of ambiguity (Miller, 2014).”
The influence of the dark triad on the relationship between entrepreneurial attitude orientation and entrepreneurial intention: A study among students in Taiwan University (2017, background): “…there has been theoretical argument about the influence of the dark triad within the context of entrepreneurship studies (Klotz & Neubaum, 2016; Miller, 2015), the present study is the first to empirically examine the mediation of the dark triad on entrepreneurial attitude and entrepreneurial…”
Entrepreneurial mindset: An integrated definition, a review of current insights, and directions for future research (2021, unknown): “Further, Antoncic et al. (2015) find a positive relationship between facets of the Big Five personality characteristics and entrepreneurship, and Miller (2015) suggests that downsides may exist with some entrepreneurial personality traits.”
Upsides to Dark and Downsides to Bright Personality: A Multidomain Review and Future Research Agenda (2018, background): “…conscientious, may lead to deleterious outcomes to the degree they are maladaptive to certain situations (e.g., Carter, Guan, Maples, Williamson, & Miller, 2015; Judge & LePine, 2007), and higher levels of certain dark traits, like narcissism, may be beneficial in certain situations to the degree…”
Betting on the Coachable Entrepreneur: Signaling and Social Exchange in Entrepreneurial Pitches (2018, methodology): “We chose to regress coachability on the Big 5 personality variables given their importance in entrepreneurship research (Miller, 2015; Zhao & Seibert, 2006; Zhao, Seibert, & Lumpkin, 2010) as well as evidence of their relationships with coachability in the athletics literature (Favor, 2011; Piedmont”