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A Study of the Effects of Personality Traits for Expatriates on Entrepreneurship and Cross-Cultural Adjustment

Due to global market competition, to increase business advantage and to reduce the producing cost, more and more companies branch in overseas countries. Therefore, it¡¦s important if the dispatched personnel could follow the policy of the company and create business advantage.
Overseas personnel have to face different culture and people. How they adapt to multi-culture would be effected by their personality, background, and experience. If overseas personnel could adapt to multi-culture well would lead to good operation of business policy. Therefore, do the Overseas personnel s have sharp observation on their entrepreneurship, how could they Risk-taking, their determination and locus of control when an enterprise choose Overseas personnel.
In the past, Scholars mainly study Personality Traits tocross-cultural adjustment or Personality Traits to entrepreneurship¡¦s effect. However, is overseas personnel¡¦s adaption to the new culture, work, and life effecting their Innovativeness¡BRisk-taking and Proactiveness
This research will study the relations between Overseas personnel¡¦s personality, cross-cultural adjustment, and entrepreneurship by using questionnaire. After the empirical research, the findings as follow:
1. Overseas personnel¡¦s personality has significant positive effect on cross-cultural adjustment.
2. Overseas personnel¡¦s personality has some positive effect on entrepreneurship.
3. Overseas personnel¡¦s personality has mediating effect between through personality and entrepreneurship.
4. The correlations between Overseas personnel¡¦s multi-culture adaption and entrepreneurship is partly positive.
5. Overseas personnel¡¦s background has great effect on their personality is partly proofed to be positive.
6. Overseas personnel¡¦s background has great effect on their cross-cultural adjustment is partly proofed to be positive.
7. Overseas personnel¡¦s background has great effect on their entrepreneurship is partly proofed to be positive.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0128110-143533
Date28 January 2010
CreatorsChang, Hsueh-wen
ContributorsU-pen wang, Min-Chu Yu, Bih-shiaw Jaw
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0128110-143533
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