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Shane, Scott and Nicolaou, Nicos (2015) Creative personality, opportunity recognition and the tendency to start businesses : a study of their genetic predispositions. Journal of Business Venturing, 30 (3). pp. 407-419. doi:10.1016/j.jbusvent.2014.04.001 ISSN 0883-9026.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2014.04.001
Abstract
We explored the effect of having a creative personality on the identification of business opportunities and the tendency to start businesses. Examining a sample of 3242 twins from the United Kingdom, which we surveyed in 2011, we confirmed that people with creative personalities are more likely than others to identify business opportunities and start businesses. We investigated how much of these associations are accounted for by a shared genetic etiology and found that common genetic influences account for a significant fraction of them. We discuss the implications of our findings for research on creative personality, opportunity recognition and entrepreneurship.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Business Venturing | ||||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier BV | ||||||||||
ISSN: | 0883-9026 | ||||||||||
Official Date: | May 2015 | ||||||||||
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Volume: | 30 | ||||||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 407-419 | ||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2014.04.001 | ||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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