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Entrepreneurship: Trait based or can one learn it?
Business Studies: Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Lecturers: Dr. W. van der Aa & Dr. T. Vinig
Student: Marina Kerbel
Student No.: 10218149
Table of Content
Introduction
Page 3
Theory
Page 5
Analysis
Page 10
Conclusion
Page 12
Bibliography
Page 14
Appendix
Page 15
2
Introduction
The world we live in consists of over six billion people. Some people are quiet and passive,
while others are loud and aggressive. It is always interesting to speculate about how personality
differs across people, the more important thing to focus on is how such personality differences
affect our personal as well as our working life. Certain personality types might be better
adapted to certain jobs than others. Knowing this, could lead people to find that one think they
will shine at.
Ever since research on leadership existed, personality attributes differentiating leaders from
non-leaders have played a significant part in explaining the success of some of the most
powerful leaders in the world. The so-called ‘trait theories’ of leadership consider personal
characteristics and innate human traits to differentiate between effective and non-effective
leaders (Robbins & Judge, 2011). This research for various personality traits has resulted in a
numerous amount of theories and models, assessing and classifying the differences. In the past
years similar studies have been conducted on the personality attributes of entrepreneurs. In
2006 White et al. conducted a research revealing significant differences between the
personalities of entrepreneurs and managers according to the Big Five Model (Digman, 1990). It
is interesting to look more into this and find out what exactly distinguishes entrepreneurs or
what is an important part in entrepreneurial success.
Relevance
Aside from the interesting part of being informed about the role of personality traits on
entrepreneurial success,...