An empirical investigation on psychological characteristics of entrepreneurs
| Autor: | Masoumeh sadat Abtahi, Farhad Edrisi, Kobra Abbasi |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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| Zdroj: | Management Science Letters, Vol 3, Iss 12, Pp 2933-2938 (2013) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1923-9335 1923-9343 47809787 |
| DOI: | 10.5267/j.msl.2013.11.004 |
| Popis: | This paper presents an empirical investigation on psychological characteristics of entrepreneurs in one of Iranian universities located in city of Zanjan, Iran. The proposed study of this paper uses a standard questionnaire in Likert scale and concentrates on three components of locus of control, risk taking and tolerance of ambiguity. The study chooses a sample of 350 out of 11,000 students who were enrolled in various areas and detected that students maintained higher level of risk taking (t-student = 10.999, P-value = 0.000), higher level of locus of control (t-student = 29.708, P-value = 0.000) and lower level of tolerance of ambiguity (t-student = -13.584, P-value = 0.000). |
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