2nd Edition

The Entrepreneurial Personality A Social Construction

By Elizabeth Chell Copyright 2008
320 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

Is there such a thing as an 'entrepreneurial personality'? What makes someone an entrepreneur is a question that has intrigued the lay person and the scholar for many years, but can such a personality be identified or is it simply a socially constructed phenomenon? Elizabeth Chell pursues an alternative line of argument: to show that the entrepreneurial personality is, on the one hand, socially... Read more

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.

Biography

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.

'Elizabeth Chell’s book has the all the hallmarks of a classic. The comprehensive approach to understanding the exciting phenomenon of entrepreneurship is well informed, insightful and carefully crafted. This text is likely to become a must read for all, students and academics alike, who want to grasp the theoretical underpinnings of being enterprising.'Alistair R Anderson, Aberdeen Business School, UK