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The person-organization interplay : how an entrepreneur's personality affects organizational legitimacy
Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/23968 The person-organization interplay : how an entrepreneur's personality affects organizational legitimacy Fisher, Greg ichelp@gibs.co.za Ali, Husam UCTD Entrepreneurship Organisational legitimacy Strategic legitimisation Entrepreneur Personality South africa Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2012. Throughout the world, entrepreneurship is viewed as a solution for struggling economies and a major engine of economic growth. As a result, the field of entrepreneurship research has captured the interest of scholars, educators and policy makers. A substantial amount of empirical studies over the last two decades has examined the role of personality in determining entrepreneurial outcomes. Concurrently, organisational legitimacy is perceived as a necessary organisational attribute for the survival and growth of new ventures. Strategic legitimacy of nascent organisations is important in explaining organizational emergence. The current study seeks to determine if there is a relationship between an entrepreneur’s personality and the strategic legitimisation activities they employ in creating a new venture. A multiple regression model tested four factors of entrepreneurs’ personality as antecedents of strategic legitimisation activities among entrepreneurs in South Africa. The empirical findings suggest that positive extraversion traits are strong predictors of entrepreneurial activities to gain strategic legitimacy for new ventures. More interestingly, negative agreeableness traits were found to be strong antecedents of strategic legitimisation activities. Such a conclusion is important in that it provides new grounds of theoretical nature to better understand the personorganisation interplay. Copyright Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) unrestricted 2013-09-06T16:17:30Z 2012-06-18 2013-09-06T16:17:30Z 2012-03-08 2012-06-18 2012-04-15 Dissertation Ali, H, 2010, The person-organization interplay : how an entrepreneur's personality affects organizational legitimacy, MBA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23968 > F12/4/350/zw http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23968 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-04152012-111050/ © 2010, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Entrepreneurship Organisational legitimacy Strategic legitimisation Entrepreneur Personality South africa The person-organization interplay : how an entrepreneur's personality affects organizational legitimacy |
| title | The person-organization interplay : how an entrepreneur's personality affects organizational legitimacy |
| title_full | The person-organization interplay : how an entrepreneur's personality affects organizational legitimacy |
| title_fullStr | The person-organization interplay : how an entrepreneur's personality affects organizational legitimacy |
| title_full_unstemmed | The person-organization interplay : how an entrepreneur's personality affects organizational legitimacy |
| title_short | The person-organization interplay : how an entrepreneur's personality affects organizational legitimacy |
| title_sort | person organization interplay how an entrepreneur s personality affects organizational legitimacy |
| topic | UCTD Entrepreneurship Organisational legitimacy Strategic legitimisation Entrepreneur Personality South africa |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23968 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-04152012-111050/ |