Entrepreneurial Personality and Small Business Management offers a comprehensive analysis with theoretical and empirical grounding for understanding how entrepreneurial personality shapes small business outcomes. It explores why entrepreneurs act differently when facing similar situations and why some are more successful than others.

Simona Leonelli and Francesca Masciarelli provide detailed quantitative and qualitative analyses based on original datasets, identifying the main personality traits of an entrepreneur. They particularly focus on how entrepreneurial narcissism affects small businesses and influences habitual entrepreneurship. Chapters draw on research techniques from a wide variety of disciplines including strategic management, entrepreneurial finance and innovation studies to reveal the importance and role of personality traits in shaping firm outcomes.

This book represents an important step towards the development of a more complete understanding of the entrepreneur's role in a small firm. It will be a valuable resource for scholars and researchers interested in entrepreneurial behavior and SMEs, in particular how personality affects business outcomes. The focus on how personal characteristics, traits and qualities can lead to success will also be of interest to entrepreneurs and business advisors.

About the Author
Simona Leonelli, Research Fellow, Department of Economics and Management, University of Padova, Italy and Francesca Masciarelli, Associate Professor, Department of Business Administration, University G. d'Annunzio, Italy

Reviews
'Leonelli and Masciarelli's book offers an original perspective on the role of personality traits of entrepreneurs and its impact on firms' outcomes. Its focus on entrepreneurial orientation and innovativeness, serial entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial funding renders it a useful guide for scholars interested in the topic.'
--Andrea Prencipe, LUISS Guido Carli University, Italy

'This book is a delightful guide for entrepreneurs who want to understand how and why their behavior impacts their performance. The manuscript offers a multilevel perspective and will be useful for both scholars and practitioners in the field.'
--Vangelis Souitaris, City, University of London, UK and University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

Book Information
ISBN 9781839108969
Author Simona Leonelli
Format Hardback
Page Count 136
Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd