Creative personality, opportunity recognition and the tendency to start businesses: A study of their genetic predispositions

By Scott A. Shane, Nicos Nicolaou. 2015

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Understanding, differentiating, and measuring opportunity recognition and opportunity exploitation (2017, unknown): “Shane and Nicolaou (2015) provide an initial step by capturing a tendency to recognize entrepreneurial opportunities and a tendency to start businesses in the same study.”
Entrepreneurial Imaginativeness in New Venture Ideation (2018, background): “In addition, researchers have demonstrated empirically that creative personalities are more likely to identify business opportunities (Shane & Nicolaou, 2015) and that creativity has a direct effect on the generation of original business ideas (Gielnik et al., 2012).”
Age, culture, and self-employment motivation (2015, background): “This is supported by the view that entrepreneurship is to a considerable extent a result of genetic inheritance (Nicolaou et al. 2008); hence, entrepreneurship’s development over the lifespan has a biological origin that is universally recognizable (Shane and Nicolaou 2015).”
Creativity, self-efficacy, and small-firm performance: the mediating role of entrepreneurial orientation (2015, background): “In the literature, EO is considered as an entrepreneurial process promoted by business owners and triggered by their individual creativity and selfefficacy (Fillis and Rentschler 2010; Matthews 2007; Poon et al. 2006; Shane and Nicolaou 2014).”
Building networks into discovery: The link between entrepreneur network capability and entrepreneurial opportunity discovery (2018, unknown): “…such as prior knowledge or experience (Baron & Ensley, 2006; Dimov, 2010; Ucbasaran, Westhead, & Wright, 2009), creativity (Gielnik, Frese, Graf, & Kampschulte, 2012; Shane & Nicolaou, 2015), and cognitive processes (De Carolis, Litzky, & Eddleston, 2009; De Carolis & Saparito, 2006).”
Biology and Management: A Review, Critique, and Research Agenda (2018, background): “…approach, researchers have been able to disentangle the contributions of genes and environment across a wide variety of organizational phenotypes using experiments of nature, specifically, studies of twins, and experiments of nurture, particularly, studies of adoptees (Shane & Nicolaou, 2015a).”
Having a creative day: understanding entrepreneurs’ daily idea generation through a recovery lens (2018, background): “…focuses on entrepreneurs' creativity as a personality trait and demonstrates its contribution to business success, including opportunity recognition (DeTienne and Chandler, 2004; Shane and Nicolaou, 2015), firm innovation (Sarooghi et al., 2015), and businesses' growth (Gielnik et al., 2012a).”