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The nature of the entrepreneur
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This article is published in Personnel Psychology.The article was published on 1970-03-01. It has received 158 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Job performance & Personnel selection.read more
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“Who Is an Entrepreneur?” Is the Wrong Question:
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define entrepreneurship as "the creation of organizations" and argue that what differentiates entrepreneurs from non-entrepreneurs is that entrepreneurs create organizations, while non-Entrepreneurs do not.
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On Studying Organizational Cultures
TL;DR: An overview of the longitudinal-processual theory of organizational formation can be found in this article, with a focus on the factors and elements of an organization's creation and formation rather than its existent structures or practices.
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A proclivity for entrepreneurship
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the potential of psychological constructs to predict a proclivity for entrepreneurship and found that those labeled entrepreneurs were higher in achievement motivation, risk-taking propensity, and preference for innovation than were both the corporate managers and the small business owners.
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The entrepreneurial personality: a person at the crossroads
TL;DR: In this article, a conceptualization of the entrepreneurial personality is proposed and the organizational impact of these entrepreneurial behaviour patterns on work environment and management succession is discussed, as well as the social, economic and psychodynamic forces influencing entrepreneurship.
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Toward a theory of motive acquisition.
TL;DR: A program of research has been under way for some time which is attempting to develop the achievement motive in adults in an attempt to fill some of the gaps in knowledge about personality change or the acquisition of complex human characteristics.
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Entrepreneurship as an Area of Research
TL;DR: Chester W. Wright as mentioned in this paper pointed out that whereas he can give some account of the vicissitudes experienced by the several distributive factors of land, labor, and capital, he will have to deal in a very cursory fashion with the entrepreneur and with entrepreneurial gains since so little is known about them.
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A Report on Research in Economic History 1
TL;DR: The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) as mentioned in this paper published a report to the United States Congress on the effects of World War II on the social science research in the Western Hemisphere.