The Specific Character Traits of Young Entrepreneurs in Slovakia

Monika Sobekova Majkova () and Aleksandr Kljucnikov ()
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Monika Sobekova Majkova: Faculty of Economics and Business, Pan-European University, Bratislava

International Journal of Entrepreneurial Knowledge, 2017, vol. 5, issue 1, 41-48

Abstract: Worldwide scientific researches present the entrepreneurs have to declare specific characteristic traits to be successful in the business. This paper is focused on the comparison of the specific character traits between potential young entrepreneurs and other young people. The aim is to compare the three chosen character traits differences between these two focus groups by using the statistical method of Pearson´s chi-square and bring the answers on the questions why some people incline to becoming the entrepreneurs more intensively than others, and what are the differences between them in relation to the character traits and their personality characteristics. The research was conducted among 1233 young people in all regions of Slovakia in 2012. The results show, that young people who plan to become an entrepreneur, are more creative, willing to face the risk, more confident in the solvation of complicated problems and difficult tasks with the opposite group of respondents.

Date: 2017
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