An empirical study on entrepreneurs' personal characteristics

Abstract

The personality of an entrepreneur is one of the most important characteristics of reaching success by creating jobs and opportunities. In this paper, we demonstrate an empirical study on personal characteristics of students who are supposed to act as entrepreneur to create jobs in seven fields of accounting, computer science, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, metallurgy engineering, electrical engineering and drawing. There are seven aspects of accepting reasonable risk, locus of control, the need for success, mental health conditions, being pragmatic, tolerating ambiguity, dreaming and the sense of challenging in our study to measure the level of entrepreneurship. We uniformly distribute 133 questionnaires among undergraduate students in all seven groups and analyze the results based on t-student test. Our investigation indicates that all students accept reasonable amount of risk, they preserve sufficient locus of control and they are eager for success. In addition, our tests indicate that students believe they maintain sufficient level of mental health care with strong sense of being pragmatic and they could handle ambiguity and challenges.

An empirical investigation on psychological characteristics of entrepreneurs

“…The results of the survey on the first two hypotheses, risk taking and Locus of control are consistent with the results found by Ahmadkhani et al (2012Ahmadkhani et al ( , 2013. The primary focus of this survey was only three components of physiological characteristics of entrepreneurs.…”

Investigating personal characteristics of entrepreneurs

“…In fact, many banks' officials, venture capitals make their financing decisions solely based on the interview on entrepreneurs' personal characteristics. During the past few decades, there have been tremendous efforts on detecting important factors on the success of an entrepreneur (Ahmadkhani et al, 2012). Khorshidifar and Abedi (2010) performed an empirical investigation on the effect of stress on the relationship between locus of control and job satisfaction and job performance.…”

“…There is a common feature among all these people, which is associated with their personal characteristics. People like Bill Gates spent all their personal times including their weekend to present a well-known product such as Windows operating system, which would help literally billions of people round the world (Ahmadkhani et al, 2012).…”

The Effects of Entrepreneurial Personality to Competitiveness and Corporate Image: A Study on Chocolate Agent Entrepreneurs

“…Personality is an interpersonal process and consistent patterns of behavior that are inherited by each individual. It can potentially be used in achieving business goals (Ahmadkhani et al, 2012;Irengun and Arikboga, 2015;Lijun et al, 2014). Lijun et al (2014. p. 128) states: "Personality is used to indicate the personal thoughts, feelings and behavior patterns, making the individual with special qualities different from others in a considerable time and in a consistent manner.…”