Entrepreneurial Personality

This research stream investigates the causes, correlates, and consequences of being more versus less entrepreneurial - i.e. The Entrepreneurial Personality. There are various research questions that we address in our lab. 

Past research questions:

• Do entrepreneurial employees generate more innovation within established organisations?
• Do entrepreneurial founders have more successful businesses? 
• Is an entrepreneurial personality important in arts and sciences?
• How do we engage and retain entrepreneurial employees?
• Do entrepreneurial people have a dark side?
• What environments do entrepreneurial people prefer and thrive in?

Current & future research questions:

• How do we create successful teams with complementary personality profiles? 
• Are entrepreneurial people over-optimistic?
• Do founders require different entrepreneurial traits relative to employees to be successful?
• Can we go beyond the 4 entrepreneurial traits? A more detailed measure of entrepreneurial personality. 
• Do women entrepreneurs require different personality profiles to be successful?
• Does the gender-performance relationship hold across different contexts?

Selected Publications: 

• Ahmetoglu, Nefrovoya, Codreanu, & Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic (2020). What makes entrepreneurial employees want to quit, or stay, in their current Job? Exploring two conflicting mechanisms. Applied Psychology, An international Review
• Ahmetoglu, G., Harding, X., Akhtar, R., Chamorro-Premuzic, T. (2015). Predictors of Creative Achievement: Assessing the Impact of Entrepreneurial Potential, Perfectionism, and Employee Engagement. Creativity Research Journal, 27, 198-205.
• Leutner, F., Ahmetoglu, G., Akhtar, R., Chamorro-Premuzic, T. (2014). The relationship between the entrepreneurial personality and the Big Five personality traits. Personality and Individual Differences, 63, 58-63.
• Almeida, P.I.L., Ahmetoglu, G., Chamorro-Premuzic, T. (2014). Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? The Relationship Between Vocational Interests and Individual Differences in Entrepreneurship. Journal of Career Assessment, 22, 102-112.
• Akhtar, R., Ahmetoglu, G., Chamorro-Premuzic, T. (2013). Greed is good? Assessing the relationship between entrepreneurship and subclinical psychopathy. Personality and Individual Differences, 54, 420-425.
• Chamorro-Premuzic, T.C., Rinaldi, C., Akhtar, R., Ahmetoglu, G. (2013). Understanding the Motivations of Female Entrepreneurs. Journal of Entrepreneurship & Organization Management, 3, 1-6
• Ahmetoglu, G., Vardi, S., Karcinsky, T., Chamorro-Premuzic, T. (2012). General Mental Ability and Entrepreneurship. Journal of Entrepreneurship and Organization Management, 2:2
• Ahmetoglu, G., Leutner, F., Chamorro-Premuzic, T. (2011). Eq-nomics: Understanding the relationship between individual differences in trait emotional intelligence and entrepreneurship. Personality and Individual Differences, 51, 1028-1033