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Personality composition and performance in entrepreneurial teams: understanding the impact of stability and plasticity traits in a relative contribution model

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  • Tobias Kollmann
  • Christoph Stöckmann
  • Jana W. Linstaedt
  • Julia M. Kensbock

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Considering that personalities of entrepreneurs are diverse, we examine how the personality composition of entrepreneurial teams affects team performance. Given the specific challenges of the entrepreneurship setting, we suggest a new understanding of the team composition-team performance link by (1) taking a meta-perspective to personality that considers the stability vs. plasticity underlying the Big Five traits and by (2) applying a relative contribution (minimum/maximum) conceptualisation of team composition. We conduct a quantitative study with 104 entrepreneurial teams. Our findings indicate that high entrepreneurial team performance requires all team members to have minimum levels of stability-related traits (agreeableness, emotional stability, conscientiousness), but only one team member with high plasticity-related traits (openness, extraversion).

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  • Tobias Kollmann & Christoph Stöckmann & Jana W. Linstaedt & Julia M. Kensbock, 2021. "Personality composition and performance in entrepreneurial teams: understanding the impact of stability and plasticity traits in a relative contribution model," International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 13(3), pages 262-287.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijeven:v:13:y:2021:i:3:p:262-287
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