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Inferring personality traits from the behaviour of highly successful entrepreneurs.

M. Tech. Organisational Leadership / Entrepreneurs can make valuable contributions to the economic value of a country. These contributions range ranging from employment for the citizens to exports that help capital to flow into the country. An entrepreneur possesses certain personality characteristics or traits that distinguish him or her from others. These characteristics are quite likely to play a very important role in the establishment, performance and success of any enterprise. The aim of this research was to develop greater insight into how certain personality traits can have a bearing on the way in which business is run. Consequently, the study focused on establishing which personality traits are associated with highly successful entrepreneurs. In other words, the study focused on how personality traits relate to high levels of business success irrespective of the era, or of the business and culture settings.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:tut/oai:encore.tut.ac.za:d1001557
Date January 2014
CreatorsDu Plessis, Eben Tommie.
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeText
FormatPDF

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