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The Entrepreneurial Personality Of Small Business Owner-Managers In Hong Kong: A Critical Incident Analysis

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  • K. F. CHAN

    (Department of Management, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China)

  • THERESA LAU

    (Department of Management, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China)

  • THOMAS W. Y. MAN

    (Department of Management, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China)

Abstract

This paper reports on the research being carried out in Hong Kong on the entrepreneurial personality of eighteen small business owner-managers in the following sectors: (1) clothing, (2) food processing, (3) catering. A profile of each of the small business companies was drawn up. In addition, unstructured in-depth interviews were carried out with the business owner-managers who were asked to explain the process of business development through the medium of critical incidents and their ways of handling the situations in the incidents. The transcribed and translated interviews have been content analysed. Behavioural attributes contributing to the entrepreneurial personality are thus identified. Throughout the study, a 'grounded theory' approach has been adopted to explore the behavioural pattern displayed by small business owner-managers in Hong Kong so that no specific prescribed pattern from the West is imposed. The paper concludes therefore with the entrepreneurial personality specifically applicable in the Hong Kong. Hence the conclusions derived are significant in that they are specific to the Hong Kong context.

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  • K. F. Chan & Theresa Lau & Thomas W. Y. Man, 1997. "The Entrepreneurial Personality Of Small Business Owner-Managers In Hong Kong: A Critical Incident Analysis," Journal of Enterprising Culture (JEC), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 5(03), pages 249-271.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:jecxxx:v:05:y:1997:i:03:n:s0218495897000156
    DOI: 10.1142/S0218495897000156
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    1. Artarina D. A. Samoedra, 2016. "Cooperative Sustainability Analysis from the Perspective of Entrepreneurial Personality and Entrepreneurial Intention," GATR Journals jmmr117, Global Academy of Training and Research (GATR) Enterprise.

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