The Use of Personality and the Five-Factor Model to Predict New Business Ventures: From Outplacement to Start-up
| Autor: | Robert Folger, Thomas A. Timmerman, Kevin C. Wooten |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Entrepreneurship media_common.quotation_subject Outplacement Sample (statistics) Start up Outcome (game theory) Education Personality Big Five personality traits Marketing Life-span and Life-course Studies Psychology Applied Psychology Self-employment media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Vocational Behavior. 54:82-101 |
| ISSN: | 0001-8791 |
| Popis: | The increasing number of layoffs among middle- and upper-level executives has made self-employment a more common outcome of outplacement counseling. At this point, however, research that identifies the personal characteristics of new business starters is rare or plagued with methodological problems. This research represents a unique opportunity to study a specific behavior (i.e., starting one's own business) under longitudinal conditions less susceptible to some of those criticisms. We examined personality characteristics of a sample of outplaced executives as predictors of subsequent new-business start-ups. The results are discussed in terms of contributions from a prospective design and in terms of the application of the five-factor model to secondary data sets. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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