TY - JOUR
T1 - A gender-based approach to the influence of personality traits on entrepreneurial intention
AU - Laouiti, Rahma
AU - Haddoud, Mohamed Yacine
AU - Nakara, Walid Adam
AU - Onjewu, Adah Kole Emmanuel
N1 - Funding Information: Dr Walid Adam Nakara is Chairholder Social Entrepreneurship and Inclusion and member of the LabEx Entrepreneurship of the of the Labex Entrepreneurship (University of Montpellier, France) funded by the French government (Labex Entreprendre, ANR-10-Labex-11-01).
PY - 2022/3/1
Y1 - 2022/3/1
N2 - While previous studies have demonstrated the importance of personality traits in the decision to pursue a career in entrepreneurship, more empirical evidence is needed to explain the mechanism through which entrepreneurial intention (EI) is strengthened. Accordingly, espousing a gender-based perspective, the current paper identifies characteristics that positively affect EI in a sample of 531 students in France. A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis is performed yielding four alternate combinations that are likely to lead to high EI, of which two are gender specific. The inherent findings advance previous studies by offering entrepreneurship educators in France and similar contexts a new understanding of entrepreneurial intention from a gender perspective. Similarly, the results offer first-hand evidence to inform university students’ career choices.
AB - While previous studies have demonstrated the importance of personality traits in the decision to pursue a career in entrepreneurship, more empirical evidence is needed to explain the mechanism through which entrepreneurial intention (EI) is strengthened. Accordingly, espousing a gender-based perspective, the current paper identifies characteristics that positively affect EI in a sample of 531 students in France. A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis is performed yielding four alternate combinations that are likely to lead to high EI, of which two are gender specific. The inherent findings advance previous studies by offering entrepreneurship educators in France and similar contexts a new understanding of entrepreneurial intention from a gender perspective. Similarly, the results offer first-hand evidence to inform university students’ career choices.
KW - Big Five Personality Traits
KW - Career Choice
KW - Entrepreneurial Intention
KW - fsQCA
KW - Gender
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.01.018
DO - 10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.01.018
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85123015364
SN - 0148-2963
VL - 142
SP - 819
EP - 829
JO - Journal of Business Research
JF - Journal of Business Research
ER -