EFFECTS OF ENTREPRENEUR PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS ON ENTREPRENEURANCE TENDENCY

Abstract

The study has aimed to investigate the effect of achievement need, self-confidence, innovation, focus of control, taking risk and tolerance against uncertainty, which have been determined as sub dimensions of entrepreneurial personality characteristics, on entrepreneurship tendency. In this sense, it has been aimed to determine the relationship, level and degree of effect between two dimensions. This study has been developed, based on three main issues. The first of thereof is the definition of enterprise and entrepreneur concepts, the second of thereof is personality characteristics and the third one is entrepreneurial process stages. In this context, the study is also important carrying out the evaluation in terms of new entrepreneurs as well as the ongoing enterprises of managers and shareholders, different structural and process management, while examining the entrepreneurial personality characteristics dimensions on entrepreneurship tendency. Questionnaire method has been used for collecting data with regard to the subject matter. The research has been applied to a total of 270 employees working at the management position in 625 companies operating at Istanbul Beylikduzu Haramidere Industrial Estate. As a result of the evaluation of the obtained data, it has been determined to be a positive and significant relation between desire for success, uncertainty perception and entrepreneurial personality characteristics and entrepreneurship tendency, in determining the relationship between entrepreneur personality characteristics sub dimensions and entrepreneurship tendency.