A developing-country perspective on tourism students’ entrepreneurial intention using trait approach and family tradition

A social cognition perspective on entrepreneurial personality traits and intentions to start a business: Does creativity matter?

“…However, contrary to past studies (Che Embi et al. , 2019; Ehsanfar et al. , 2021), our findings fail to confirm the positive effect of tolerance for ambiguity on entrepreneurial intention adding more empirical support to the findings reported in previous research which show that some traits are not significantly related to intentions (e.g.…”

“…In line with previous studies (Altinay et al, 2012;Che Embi et al, 2019;Ehsanfar et al, 2021;Gurol and Atsan, 2006;Gurel et al, 2010;Lopez-Nunez et al, 2020), entrepreneurs with high propensity to take risks are more likely to engage in entrepreneurial activity. However, contrary to past studies (Che Embi et al, 2019;Ehsanfar et al, 2021), our findings fail to confirm the positive effect of tolerance for ambiguity on entrepreneurial intention adding more empirical support to the findings reported in previous research which show that some traits are not significantly related to intentions (e.g., Dinis et al, 2013). Likewise, our findings fail to confirm the positive effect of innovativeness on entrepreneurial intention.…”

“…This study makes three specific contributions to the existing body of knowledge. First, it adds more empirical support to the inconclusive findings reported in previous research focusing on the relationship between entrepreneurial personality traits and entrepreneurial intention (Che Embi et al, 2019;Dinis et al, 2013;Ehsanfar et al, 2021;Ferreira et al, 2012;Gurel et al, 2010). In doing so, the study responds to the research call for combining cognitive, motivational, and emotional forces in various social contexts (Mitchell et al, 2011).…”

“…This requires a high level of tolerance for ambiguity which is considered important for entrepreneurship (McMullen and Shepherd, 2006). Yet, empirical findings on the relationship between tolerance for ambiguity and entrepreneurial intention are not conclusive with some studies confirming a positive relationship (Che Embi et al, 2019;Ehsanfar et al, 2021) and others failing to do so (Dinis et al, 2013;Gurel et al, 2010). Hence, there seems to be a need for more empirical investigation into this relationship.…”

“…Overall, there is considerable empirical evidence to support the notion that individuals who have greater propensity to rake risks are more likely to be entrepreneurial (Farrukh et al, 2018;Lopez-Nunez et al, 2020). Che Embi et al (2019) and more recently, Ehsanfar et al (2021) confirmed the positive association between risk-taking propensity and entrepreneurial intention. We have therefore formulated the following hypothesis:…”