The Relationship between Personality Traits and Prior Knowledge on Entrepreneurial performance: the Mediating Effect of Opportunity Identification

• Main Authors: Chia-Yi Lin, 林佳儀
• Other Authors: Wen-Chih Liao
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/59823026604627558945

碩士 === 國立臺灣科技大學 === 企業管理系 === 96 === The vigorous development on entrepreneurial issue already has gained increasing attention from scholars and practices, however, the issue that related opportunity identification has rarely evidence in the past research, therefore the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship which mediating effect of opportunity identification between personality traits and prior knowledge on entrepreneurial performance. The data were collected from entrepreneurs of small & medium-sized enterprises in Taiwan. A total of 250 questionnaires were distributed this way and 127 valid response obtained. The article performed hierarchical regression analyses to test the hypotheses, obtained some major findings: (1) personality traits were positively related to opportunity identification. (2) prior knowledge was positively related to opportunity identification.(3) opportunity identification was positively related to t entrepreneurial performance.(4) opportunity identification was full mediated the relationship between personality and entrepreneurial performance.(5) opportunity identification was partial mediated the relationship between professional knowledge and entrepreneurial performance, opportunity identification was full mediated the relationship between industry-specific knowledge, entrepreneurial knowledge and entrepreneurial performance.