An empirical study on entrepreneurs' personal characteristics


Ahmad Ahmadkhani, Mehrnaz Paknezhad and Arezo Nazari


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.


DOI: j.msl.2012.01.004

Keywords: Entrepreneurship ,Personality ,Job creation ,Creativity

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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