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Pattern Versus Level: A New Look At The Personality-Entrepreneurship Relationship, Wencang Zhou, Xi Yang, Yuanqing Li, Yanli Zhang
Pattern Versus Level: A New Look At The Personality-Entrepreneurship Relationship, Wencang Zhou, Xi Yang, Yuanqing Li, Yanli Zhang
Department of Management Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
Purpose: By using a nontraditional configuration approach, the purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of personality on entrepreneurial intention and success. Previous research has focused on why individuals become entrepreneurs and why some are more successful than others. However, most studies have investigated only single factors or primary personality traits. The current study investigates not only the strength of the personality-entrepreneurship link, but also clarifies the nature of the relationship. Design/methodology/approach: Using two independent samples and an innovative regression-based pattern recognition procedure, the study investigates whether the nature of the personality-entrepreneurship relationship is driven by individuals’ absolute …
Building Business Models Through Simple Rules, Sunny Li Sun, Jianqiang Xiao, Yanli Zhang, Xia Zhao
Building Business Models Through Simple Rules, Sunny Li Sun, Jianqiang Xiao, Yanli Zhang, Xia Zhao
Department of Management Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
Purpose: How do entrepreneurs use simple rules to build their business models? Based on an inductive study of three Chinese Internet and technology firms, the authors find that business models emerge from simple rules that entrepreneurs learn from their experience. Simple rules also guide entrepreneurs to actualize and exploit opportunities in the marketplace, and they can help business models evolve through market feedback, especially in internationalization. This paper aims to delve into the black box of entrepreneurial decision-making and offer a better depiction of the business model development process in uncertain and fast-changing environments and thus provide guidance for future …
How Shared Leadership And Team Personality Composition Interact To Improve Entrepreneurial Team Performance: Evidence From China, Wencang Zhou, Yanli Zhang, Yali Shen
How Shared Leadership And Team Personality Composition Interact To Improve Entrepreneurial Team Performance: Evidence From China, Wencang Zhou, Yanli Zhang, Yali Shen
Department of Management Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to explore the contingency effects of personality composition on the shard leadership and entrepreneurial team performance relationship and second, to examine different contingency effects that team personality mean score and team personality diversity have on the shared leadership – entrepreneurial team performance relationship, using the person-team fit theory and the Big-5 framework. Design/methodology/approach: The sample consisted of 200 entrepreneurial teams in a technology incubator founded in 2009 in eastern China. Data were collected through an online survey. Findings: Team conscientiousness level and team openness to experience diversity were found to interact …