The Entrepreneurial Personality: A Social Construction

Abstract

Are entrepreneurial abilities inherent or acquired? The nature-nurture debate is particularly relevant in the field of entrepreneurship research as there is strong empirical evidence on both sides of the debate. Chell makes a significant contribution in this book through a critical examination of the empirical data and arguments residing in three major theoretical approaches, the economic, sociological and psychological, before presenting a social constructivist perspective of the entrepreneurial personality. The nine chapters in the book are structured in the form of a sustained argument for the social constructivist perspective. Chell brings to bear her considerable experience as a researcher, writer and advocate of small business development in her meticulous analysis presented in each chapter.