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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 …