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- Title
Is Entrepreneurial Success Predictable? An Ex-Ante Analysis of the Character-Based Approach.
- Authors
Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S.
- Abstract
This paper empirically analyzes whether the character-based approach, which focuses on the personality structure and the human capital of business founders, allows prediction of entrepreneurial success. A unique data set is used consisting of 414 persons whose personal characteristics were analyzed by different methods, namely an one-day assessment center (AC) and a standardized questionnaire, before they launched their business. Results are partly unexpected and weaker than previous ex-post findings: first, we found correlations between the AC data and the questionnaire in one subgroup only. Second, the predictive power of the AC data is slightly better than that of the questionnaire, but lower than expected in theory. Interestingly, for those subgroups where the AC data have low predictive power, the questionnaire does better. Third, when success is measured in terms of employees hired, the character-based approach is a poor predictor.
- Subjects
ENTREPRENEURSHIP; HUMAN capital; CAREER development; LABOR economics; ADAPTABILITY (Personality); LABOR productivity; NOBILITY of character; SOCIAL character; ACHIEVED status
- Publication
Kyklos, 2008, Vol 61, Issue 2, p189
- ISSN
0023-5962
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-6435.2008.00398.x