Explaining Entrepreneurial Behavior: Dispositional Personality Traits, Growth of Personal Entrepreneurial Resources, and Business Idea Generation

Autor/inn/en	Obschonka, Martin; Silbereisen, Rainer K.; Schmitt-Rodermund, Eva
Titel	Explaining Entrepreneurial Behavior: Dispositional Personality Traits, Growth of Personal Entrepreneurial Resources, and Business Idea Generation
Quelle	In: Career Development Quarterly, 60 (2012) 2, S.178-190 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0889-4019
DOI	10.1002/j.2161-0045.2012.00015.x
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Personality Traits; Structural Equation Models; Social Capital; Individual Development; Sciences; Business; Entrepreneurship; Creative Thinking; Human Capital; Competence; Adolescents; Adults; Scientists; Developmental Stages; Career Development; Predictor Variables; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Sozialkapital; Individuelle Entwicklung; Science; Wissenschaft; Business studies; Wirtschaft; Betriebswirtschaft; Unternehmungsgeist; Kreatives Denken; Humankapital; Kompetenz; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Scientist; Wissenschaftler; Berufsentwicklung; Prädiktor; Deutschland
Abstract	Applying a life-span approach of human development and using the example of science-based business idea generation, the authors used structural equation modeling to test a mediation model for predicting entrepreneurial behavior in a sample of German scientists (2 measurement occasions; Time 1, N = 488). It was found that recalled early entrepreneurial competence in adolescence predicted business idea generation. This link was mediated by entrepreneurial human and social capital. Moreover, an entrepreneurial Big Five profile was associated with early entrepreneurial competence and predicted entrepreneurial human and social capital. Results underscore the relevance of the long-neglected developmental approach to entrepreneurship. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10