Personality composition and performance in entrepreneurial teams: understanding the impact of stability and plasticity traits in a relative contribution model

Tobias Kollmann, Christoph Stöckmann, Jana W. Linstaedt and Julia M. Kensbock

International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing, 2021, vol. 13, issue 3, 262-287

Abstract: Considering that personalities of entrepreneurs are diverse, we examine how the personality composition of entrepreneurial teams affects team performance. Given the specific challenges of the entrepreneurship setting, we suggest a new understanding of the team composition-team performance link by (1) taking a meta-perspective to personality that considers the stability vs. plasticity underlying the Big Five traits and by (2) applying a relative contribution (minimum/maximum) conceptualisation of team composition. We conduct a quantitative study with 104 entrepreneurial teams. Our findings indicate that high entrepreneurial team performance requires all team members to have minimum levels of stability-related traits (agreeableness, emotional stability, conscientiousness), but only one team member with high plasticity-related traits (openness, extraversion).

Keywords: entrepreneurial teams; team diversity; team composition; personality traits; team performance; big five; stability; plasticity. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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