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Management Science Letters

ISSN 1923-9343 (Online) - ISSN 1923-9335 (Print)
Quarterly Publication
Volume 2 Issue 3 pp. 751-756 , 2012

An empirical study on entrepreneurs' personal characteristics Pages 751-756 Right click to download the paper Download PDF

Authors: Ahmad Ahmadkhani, Mehrnaz Paknezhad, Arezo Nazari

DOI: 10.5267/j.msl.2012.01.004

Keywords: Entrepreneurship, Job creation, Personality

Abstract: The personality of an entrepreneur is one of the most important characteristics of reaching success by creating jobs and opportunities. In this paper, we demonstrate an empirical study on personal characteristics of students who are supposed to act as entrepreneur to create jobs in seven fields of accounting, computer science, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, metallurgy engineering, electrical engineering and drawing. There are seven aspects of accepting reasonable risk, locus of control, the need for success, mental health conditions, being pragmatic, tolerating ambiguity, dreaming and the sense of challenging in our study to measure the level of entrepreneurship. We uniformly distribute 133 questionnaires among undergraduate students in all seven groups and analyze the results based on t-student test. Our investigation indicates that all students accept reasonable amount of risk, they preserve sufficient locus of control and they are eager for success. In addition, our tests indicate that students believe they maintain sufficient level of mental health care with strong sense of being pragmatic and they could handle ambiguity and challenges.

How to cite this paper
Ahmadkhani, A., Paknezhad, M & Nazari, A. (2012). An empirical study on entrepreneurs' personal characteristics.Management Science Letters , 2(3), 751-756.

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Journal: Management Science Letters | Year: 2012 | Volume: 2 | Issue: 3 | Views: 2957 | Reviews: 0

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