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JPT Research Digest

Entrepreneurial Tendencies by Different Personalities.


Brandt, T. & Helander, N. (2020) Entrepreneurial tendencies by different personalities. Journal of Finnish Studies, 23(2), 104–116

This study focuses on entrepreneurial aspects of different personality types to increase understanding of entrepreneurial mindsets in Finland. Fostering entrepreneurship in Finland is important because of the need for new businesses. Better able to recognize those students with an entrepreneurial mindset, universities could offer tailored education to enhance entrepreneurship growth.

An entrepreneurial mindset orients behavior toward entrepreneurial activities and outcomes–a concept that lacks empirical support because of methodological difficulties in discovering how entrepreneurs think. This study focuses on entrepreneurial attitudes of the different personality types and preferences to increase understanding of entrepreneurial mindsets.

Data was gathered from 889 research participants who took the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®(MBTI®) instrument and a five-item survey measuring entrepreneurial attitude that emphasized risk-taking and growth-orientation capacity. The type with the highest means on entrepreneurial attitude was ENTJ, followed by ENTP. The lowest means on entrepreneurial attitude were with ISFJ, ISFP, and INFJ. Extraversion (E) and Intuition (N) were the preferences that scored highest on entrepreneurial attitude. Earlier studies confirm that the Intuition (N) preference is strongly connected to entrepreneurship, substantiating current findings. Previous studies have indicated that the Perceiving (P) preference was correlated with entrepreneurship, but in this study, there were no differences between Judging (J) and Perceiving (P) preferences on entrepreneurial attitude.

Research has identified higher education as a functional place for supporting entrepreneurship, yet there remains a lack of understanding about how to educate students effectively to choose an entrepreneurship route.


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