Applying Person‐Environment Fit Theory to Identify Personality Differences between Prospective Social and Commercial Entrepreneurs: An Explorative Study
运用人-环境匹配理论，比较潜在社会企业家与商业企业家在利他主义、同理心、个人痛苦、成就需求、创业自我效能、一般自我效能和风险承担倾向等个性维度上的差异，发现两组在个人痛苦、成就需求、创业自我效能和风险承担倾向上存在显著差异。
Research has started to investigate personality traits of social entrepreneurs because such traits in commercial entrepreneurs have been found to affect new venture creation/success. In this exploratory study, we apply the person-environment fit theory and analyze specific social entrepreneurial personality dimensions (i.e., altruism, empathic concern, personal distress, compassion), and classical entrepreneurial personality dimensions (i.e., need for achievement (nAch), entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE), general self-efficacy, risk-taking propensity) to identify differences between prospective social and commercial entrepreneurs. Using a sample of 85 prospective entrepreneurs, results show that prospective social entrepreneurs differ from prospective commercial entrepreneurs in the personality dimensions of personal distress, nAch, ESE, and risk-taking propensity.