The Entrepreneurial Personality

This book presents a timely set of views on the entrepreneurial personality in a systematic and scholarly manner. It will be of great interest to academics in the fields of entrepreneurship, applied psychology and sociology.

Elizabeth Chell has held chairs at the universities of Newcastle, UMIST/University of Manchester and Southampton. She has published extensively in the fields of Organisational and Entrepreneurial Behaviour, Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Human Relations and Research Methods. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts (RSA) and the British Academy of Management.

1. Who is an Entrepreneur? 2. The Economists' View of the Entrepreneur 3. The Socio-economic Environment 4. The Search for Entrepreneurial Traits: 'The Big Three' 5. New Entrepreneurial Traits 6. Interactionism and Cognitive Approaches to Personality 7. Paradigms, Methodology and the Construction of the Entrepreneurial Personality 8. The Heterogeneity of Entrepreneurs: Cases and Colour 9. The Entrepreneurial Personality: The State of the Art. Bibliography. Index.