The bright side of a dark personality – How dark triad traits influence entrepreneurial passion
基于身份理论，研究了暗黑三人格（自恋、马基雅维利主义、精神病态）如何通过不同组合影响创业者在发明、创办和发展三个领域的激情，发现马基雅维利主义对三个领域都有激情，而自恋和精神病态各有侧重。
While earlier research has identified beneficial outcomes of entrepreneurial passion, our study extends the scarce literature on its antecedents. Conceptualizing entrepreneurial passion as an identity-based construct influenced by personality traits, we draw on identity theory to investigate how the dark triad traits—narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy—relate to entrepreneurial passion. Our findings provide an invaluable extension of earlier works that have mainly focused on the role bright personality traits play for passion. We adopt a fuzzy set methodology to examine which configurations of the dark triad traits lead to the domains of entrepreneurial passion for inventing, founding, and developing. Our results provide evidence that entrepreneurs with high levels of Machiavellianism have passion for all three domains, while high levels of narcissism lead to passion for inventing and developing. In contrast, high levels of psychopathy lead to passion for inventing and founding. This study contributes to the passion and dark triad literature.