Is there such a thing as an 'entrepreneurial personality'? What makes someone an entrepreneur is a question that has intrigued the lay person and the scholar for many years, but can such a personality be identified or is it simply a socially constructed phenomenon? Elizabeth Chell pursues an alternative line of argument: to show that the entreprene

Elizabeth Chell has held chairs at the universities of Newcastle, UMIST/University of Manchester and Southampton. She has published extensively in the fields of Organisational and Entrepreneurial Behaviour, Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Human Relations and Research Methods. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts (RSA) and the British Academy of Management.

1. Who is an Entrepreneur? 2.The Economists' View of the Entrepreneur 3. The Socio-economic Environment 4. The Search for Entrepreneurial Traits: 'The Big Three'5.New Entrepreneurial Traits 6. Interactionism and Cognitive Approaches to Personality 7. Paradigms, Methodology and the Construction of the Entrepreneurial Personality 8. The Heterogeneity of Entrepreneurs: Cases and Colour 9. The Entrepreneurial Personality: The State of the Art. Bibliography. Index.