Preface | |
Acknowledgements | |
Introduction | p. 3 |
The Importance of New Ventures and Their Performance | p. 3 |
The Lack of Correspondence between the Results of Academic Research and Current Theory and Practice | p. 4 |
Model Development | p. 11 |
Economic Theories of Entrepreneurship | p. 12 |
Previous Research into the Characteristics of the Entrepreneur | p. 18 |
Important Directions Suggested by the Strategy Implementation Literature on Matching Managers to Jobs | p. 29 |
Important Directions from the Psychology, Psychological Testing, and Related Literature | p. 33 |
The Further Development of Katz' Skills Typology and its Synthesis with Guilford's Structure of Intellect Model | p. 48 |
The Current Research Model | p. 54 |
Summary of the Literature Review | p. 54 |
Research Design | p. 73 |
The Holistic Construal Approach to Doing Research | p. 73 |
Development of General Hypotheses from the Current Research Model | p. 74 |
Operationalization of Variables | p. 77 |
The Research Design | p. 92 |
Methodology | p. 97 |
Analysis and Results | p. 101 |
Data Gathering | p. 101 |
Reliability Issues | p. 103 |
Test of Hypothesis: H1 through H2G | p. 115 |
The SBDC Confirmation Sample | p. 134 |
Test of Hypotheses H3A Through H3G | p. 173 |
The Preventure Confirmation Sample | p. 176 |
Derivation of Specific Normative Propositions | p. 179 |
Summary of Analysis and Results Chapter | p. 199 |
Conclusions | p. 203 |
Conclusions | p. 203 |
Implications | p. 207 |
Limitations | p. 210 |
Directions for Future Research | p. 212 |
Appendix | p. 219 |
Bibliography | p. 229 |
Index | p. 261 |
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