ENTREPRENEURIAL CHARACTERISTICS, OPTIMISM, PESSIMISM, AND REALISM-CORRELATION OR COLLISION?

The study of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship has resulted in a great deal of information about who entrepreneurs are and how who they are impacts their behavior. This article presents additional insight into who entrepreneurs are and how their characteristics relate, and how those relationships might impact their behavior. We have studied selected entrepreneurial characteristics and their relationship to optimism, realism, and pessimism. The study shows that some entrepreneurial characteristics are positively related to optimism and realism and negatively related to pessimism. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]