Does entrepreneurial factor influence creative identities' perception?

Abstract

The interdisciplinary research on the perception of entrepreneurs, managers, leaders, creators, and artists by individuals with and without entrepreneurial identity brings significant conclusions for understanding the way of thinking of entrepreneurs, their internal features, and motivations of their decisions. For this purpose, an international quantitative examination (n = 160) was undertaken. The research displayed that individuals with and without entrepreneurial identity perceive entrepreneurs, managers, leaders, creators, and artists statistically similar (the hypotheses were confirmed using the chi-square test of independence devoted to small samples without a normal distribution at p < 0.001). The negative verification of the hypotheses was astonishment and should be perceived as a novelty in the investigated area. The novelty can be perceived as an entrepreneurial potential existing in each individual (similar perception of the creative identities) that requires a specific spark and a fuel. The supplementary qualitative analysis of the variances among the 50 features constituting the investigated identities revealed that individuals with and without entrepreneurial identity see particular features of the investigated identities somewhat differently. Analysis of these differences was made, and the most important, the least important, and the most equally perceived were described and illustrated in detail. The results were discussed with the literature on the subject, confirming most other researchers' theses and revealing some contradictions. The conclusions reveal characteristics of an entrepreneur's identity perception by individuals with and without entrepreneurial factors and the meaning of all investigated identities in an entrepreneur's identity. The research outcomes may be used to understand the qualities of entrepreneurial identity and the perception of investigated identities by individuals, groups (with particular underlining of business organizations), and societies dominated by persons with and without entrepreneurial factors. The applicability of the findings is broad, mainly due to the crucial role of entrepreneurship in today's world as potential in each individual. Particular triggers should be catalyzed instead of looking for entrepreneurial individuals. The education process of entrepreneurs should focus on revealing entrepreneurial potential underlining the role of inspiration, and discovering the motifs of entrepreneurial activity.

Perception of Creative Identities by Artistic and Non-Artistic Individuals: Consequences for Management

“…However, because of the small size of the sample (n = 160), complex statistics were not conducted. Therefore, this article exhibits only a fragment of the assumptions from the broad research (Szostak, 2020b(Szostak, , 2021a(Szostak, , 2021b(Szostak, , 2021c(Szostak, , 2021d.…”