The Entrepreneurial Personality: A Social Construction

ISBN-13: 9780415647502 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 320 str.

Elizabeth Chell

Opis

Is the idea of an 'entrepreneurial personality' a concrete reality or a socially constructed phenomenon? In this second edition, Elizabeth Chell revisits the topic, updating the evidence from the Psychometricians that have tested various personality dimensions of the entrepreneurial persona.

Spis treści

1. Who is an Entrepreneur?   2. The Economists' View of the Entrepreneur  3. The Socio-economic Environment   4. The Search for Entrepreneurial Traits: 'The Big Three'  5. New Entrepreneurial Traits  6. Interactionism and Cognitive Approaches to Personality  7. Paradigms, Methodology and the Construction of the Entrepreneurial Personality  8. The Heterogeneity of Entrepreneurs: Cases and Colour  9. The Entrepreneurial Personality: The State of the Art. Bibliography.  Index.

O autorze

Elizabeth Chell has held chairs at the universities of Newcastle, UMIST/University of Manchester and Southampton. She has published extensively in the fields of Organisational and Entrepreneurial Behaviour, Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Human Relations and Research Methods. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts (RSA) and the British Academy of Management.