Entrepreneurial personality and entrepreneurial behaviour

Generalized expectancies for internal versus external control of reinforcement.

Julian B. Rotter · The Psychological Monographs · 1966 · 21.9K citations

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Four ways five factors are basic

Paul T. Costa, Robert R. McCrae · Personality and Individual Differences · 1992 · 3.4K citations

Social Sciences, Psychology, Psychometrics +8

A theory of entrepreneurial opportunity identification and development

Alexander Ardichvili, Richard N. Cardozo, Sourav Ray · Journal of Business Venturing · 2002 · 2.7K citations

Business, Entrepreneurship, Strategic Management +12

A Conceptual Framework for Describing the Phenomenon of New Venture Creation

William B. Gartner · Academy of Management Review · 1985 · 2.4K citations

Management, Entrepreneurship, Strategic Management +8

Let's put the person back into entrepreneurship research: A meta-analysis on the relationship between business owners' personality traits, business creation, and success

Andreas Rauch, Michael Fresé · European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology · 2007 · 1.8K citations

Social Sciences, Entrepreneurship, Psychology +7