Abstract
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).
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 262-287 |
| Number of pages | 26 |
| Journal | International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2021 |
Keywords
- entrepreneurial teams
- team diversity
- team composition
- personality traits
- team performance
- big five
- stability
- plasticity
- HIGHER-ORDER FACTORS
- DEEP-LEVEL DIVERSITY
- TOP MANAGEMENT TEAMS
- BIG 5
- FIRM PERFORMANCE
- CONTEXTUAL PERFORMANCE
- PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
- TASK-PERFORMANCE
- JOB-PERFORMANCE
- SURFACE-LEVEL