A social work study for assessment of entrepreneurs' personal characteristics


Ahmad Ahmadkhani, Mehrnaz Paknezhad and Ahmad Maaroufkhani


The personality of an entrepreneur plays an important role on the success of creating new ideas. There are different characteristics such as courage, hardness, braveness, which could help an entrepreneur reach his/her goals. In this paper, we present an empirical study to learn more about students who are supposed to act as entrepreneur to create jobs in different fields of accounting, computer science, mechanical engineering, etc. In this paper, 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 implement ANOVA test to measure different entrepreneurship characteristics of students who study in various educational fields. The case study is associated with Sama private university located in city of Zanjan/Iran. The results indicate that there are not meaningful differences among pairwise comparison of many engineering fields.


DOI: j.msl.2011.08.008

Keywords: Entrepreneurship ,Personality ,Job creation ,Creativity

How to cite this paper:

Ahmadkhani, A., Paknezhad, M & Maaroufkhani, A. (2012). A social work study for assessment of entrepreneurs' personal characteristics.Management Science Letters, 2(1), 307-312.


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