Explaining entrepreneurial behavior: Dispositional personality traits, growth of personal entrepreneurial resources, and business idea generation

Career Development Quarterly

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 178-190

  Obschonka, Martin ^a   Silbereisen, Rainer K ^a   Schmitt Rodermund, Eva ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Big Five; competence growth in adolescence; entrepreneurship; opportunity recognition; personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861907263     PISSN: 08894019     EISSN: 21610045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2161-0045.2012.00015.x     Document Type: Article

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