Personality: Blessing or Curse? The Entrepreneur’s Path from Personal to Leadership Competencies

• Authors: Michael Forster , Philipp Parrer , Nina Maria Wöss
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper is based on a study which investigates the relevance of management competencies in Austrian organizations, focusing on start-ups. The study as well as the existing literature confirms that personal competencies such as ambition, selfconfidence or assertiveness are perceived as more important by start-ups than by established companies. However, further results of the paper show that especially leadership competencies play a major role in developing a growing start-up whereas personal competencies fade into the background and can even have a negative impact on turnover growth. In general, the paper discusses special characteristics of competence classes for start-ups and examines differences and similarities in comparison to established companies. As it has already been indicated, the evidence leads to different and surprising considerations for entrepreneurs and growing start-ups.

Keywords

EN

Classes of competencies; entrepreneurship; start-up

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Organizacija
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 46
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 221-231

Dates

published

2013-09-01

online

2013-10-20

Contributors

author

Michael Forster

• Johnstraße 13/15, 1150 Wien, Austria

author

Philipp Parrer

• Welthandelsplatz 1, 1020 Wien, Austria

author

Nina Maria Wöss

• Spengergasse 37-39, 1050 Wien, Austria

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DOI

10.2478/orga-2013-0020