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What’s in a face? Facial appearance associated with emergence but not success in entrepreneurship
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Stefanidis, Dimosthenis, Nicolaou, Nicos, Charitonos, S., Pallis, George and Dikaiakos, Marios (2022) What’s in a face? Facial appearance associated with emergence but not success in entrepreneurship. Leadership Quarterly, 33 (2). 101597. doi:10.1016/j.leaqua.2021.101597 ISSN 1048-9843.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2021.101597
Abstract
Facial appearance has been associated with leader selection in domains where effective leadership is considered crucial, such as politics, business and the military. Few studies, however, have so far explored associations between facial appearance and entrepreneurship, despite the growing expectation that societies project on entrepreneurs for providing exemplary leadership in activities leading to the creation of disruptive start-ups. By using computer vision tools and a large-scale sample of entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs from Crunchbase, we investigate whether three geometrically based facial characteristics - facial width-to-height ratio (fWHR), cheekbone prominence, and facial symmetry - as well as advanced statistical models of whole facial appearance, are associated with a) the likelihood of an individual to emerge as an entrepreneur and b) the performance of the company founded by that individual. We find that cheekbone prominence, facial symmetry and two whole facial appearance statistical models are associated with the likelihood of an individual to emerge as an entrepreneur. In contrast to entrepreneurship emergence, none of the examined facial characteristics are associated with performance. Overall, our results suggest that facial appearance is associated with the emergence of leaders in the entrepreneurial endeavor, however, it is not informative about their subsequent performance.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HM Sociology T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Face perception , Facial expression , Entrepreneurship, Leadership , Human face recognition (Computer science) , Social psychology | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Leadership Quarterly | ||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1048-9843 | ||||||||
Official Date: | April 2022 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 33 | ||||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||||
Article Number: | 101597 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.leaqua.2021.101597 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 12 January 2022 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 14 July 2023 | ||||||||
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