The Science of Startups: The Impact of Founder Personalities on Company Success

How entrepreneurship drives life satisfaction among people with intellectual disabilities (PwID): a mixed-method approach

“…Recent studies, for example, argue that entrepreneurship is a good option for PwD as it provides flexibility (Wehman et al, 2015) and could potentially provide these people with engagement, meaning Entrepreneur with ID and life satisfaction and accomplishment, to ultimately enhance their well-being and LQ (cf., Uyanik et al, 2017). However, the job-person fit (Cable and Edwards, 2004) or occupational-personality fit theories (McCarthy et al, 2022) argue that this would only be true if the personality or attitudes of the people who start a business suit all those values and attitudes that the entrepreneurship career represents. Indeed, when understood as the degree of alignment between the individual attributes (e.g.…”

“…desire for autonomy, creative tendency) and the job (cf., Cable and Edwards, 2004), job-person fit is expected to enhance the engagement of people in what they do (Bailey et al, 2017), which, according to the positive psychology theory (Seligman, 2011), should help people experience a satisfying job and life. This theory also states that the match of one's personality with the personality of a type of job is a key aspect as regards people finding their work satisfying and being happier (McCarthy et al, 2022), and previous literature has showed that this fit is critical if entrepreneurs are to be successful in their entrepreneurial projects (Markman and Baron, 2003). Given that entrepreneurship as a career is likely to be chosen by people with disabilities "out of obligation," as a response to the discrimination and lack of opportunities they perceive in the job market (Caldwell et al, 2020a), the entrepreneurial The process and experiences of selfemployment among people with disabilities Qualitative.…”

“…GET, high need for achievement, high need for autonomy, calculated risk-taking, internal locus of control, creative tendency, Caird, 2013). When combined with the social theory of disability (Abberley, 1987) and the positive psychology theory (Seligman, 2011), the job or occupational person-fit theory (Cable and Edwards, 2004;McCarthy et al, 2022) could, therefore, help to explain how the combination of entrepreneurship and GET is the key to promoting LQ, job satisfaction (and by impacting on these two aforementioned well-being related outcomes), life satisfaction among PwID, as described below.…”

“…internal locus of control, need for independence, etc.) (cf., Larsson and Thulin, 2019;Binder and Croad, 2013) which according to the job or occupational person-fit theory (McCarthy et al, 2022;Cable and Edwards, 2004) makes sense. Entrepreneurship is, therefore, likely not sufficient to lead to life satisfaction, but the greatest experience of life satisfaction may rather occur when entrepreneurship is combined with having a high GET.…”

“…Our prediction is based on Seligman's positive psychology theory (Seligman, 2011) and Ryan and Deci's (2000) self-determination theory's (SDT) argument that it is the fulfillment of values/needs that predicts well-beingrelated outcomes. Our prediction also draws on the job or occupational person-fit theory (see Cable and Edwards, 2004;McCarthy et al, 2022), which argues that such outcomes are also more easily achieved when people's preferences, wants or values (GET, in our case) fit the role any individual has to execute at work (the role of entrepreneur, in our case). This study helps elucidate whether efforts made by institutions to improve LQ, job satisfaction and life satisfaction among PwID should rely only on supporting entrepreneurship among these people or also, on implementing activities directed at activating GETs among them.…”