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Personality and entrepreneurial leadership:: A study of the heads of the UK's most successful independent companies

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Through an empirical study of the heads of the UK's top independent companies, comparing them with sample norms and a management control group, the paper re-examines the question of whether there is an entrepreneurial leadership personality profile. Several distinctive features are reported and discussed. Contrary to common stereotypes, the leaders are not open-minded risk-takers so much as single-minded, thick-skinned, dominating individuals. Results are discussed within the frame of the new discipline of evolutionary psychology.

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  • Nicholson, Nigel, 1998. "Personality and entrepreneurial leadership:: A study of the heads of the UK's most successful independent companies," European Management Journal, Elsevier, vol. 16(5), pages 529-539, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:eurman:v:16:y:1998:i:5:p:529-539
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