Attitude toward innovativeness based on personality traits in the SME sector. Czech Republic case study

Kozubíková, Ludmila; Čepel, Martin; Zlámalová, Monika

dc.title	Attitude toward innovativeness based on personality traits in the SME sector. Czech Republic case study	en
dc.contributor.author	Kozubíková, Ludmila
dc.contributor.author	Čepel, Martin
dc.contributor.author	Zlámalová, Monika
dc.relation.ispartof	Management & Marketing-Challenges for the Knowledge Society
dc.identifier.issn	1842-0206 Scopus Sources, Sherpa/RoMEO, JCR
dc.date.issued	2018
utb.relation.volume	13
utb.relation.issue	2
dc.citation.spage	913
dc.citation.epage	928
dc.type	article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	De Gruyter Poland Sp Zoo
dc.identifier.doi	10.2478/mmcks-2018-0013
dc.relation.uri	https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/mmcks/13/2/article-p913.xml
dc.subject	small and medium-sized enterprises	en
dc.subject	innovativeness	en
dc.subject	risk taking	en
dc.subject	proactiveness	en
dc.subject	entrepreneur's age	en
dc.subject	gender	en
dc.subject	education	en
dc.subject	Czech Republic	en
dc.description.abstract	The research of personality characteristics of small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) entrepreneurs in relation to EO constructs is an important part of the research of the whole entrepreneurial environment of small and medium-sized enterprises. The aim of this paper is to search for a relationship between personality traits and the attitude toward innovativeness as a construct of EO of SME entrepreneurs in the Czech Republic based on their sociodemographic factors (gender, education, and age). Results from a questionnaire-based survey of the entrepreneurial environment of SME in the Czech Republic showed that the attitude toward innovativeness differed for entrepreneurs considering perseverance and responsibility to be important for entrepreneurship based on their education level. Entrepreneurs with secondary education or secondary educated with graduation were more confident about the reputation of their business as an innovator than university educated entrepreneurs.	en
utb.faculty	Faculty of Management and Economics
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10563/1008115
utb.identifier.obdid	43878658
utb.identifier.scopus	2-s2.0-85051420958
utb.identifier.wok	000438165500005
utb.source	j-wok
dc.date.accessioned	2018-08-03T12:49:41Z
dc.date.available	2018-08-03T12:49:41Z
dc.description.sponsorship	Internal Grant Agency of FaME; TBU [IGA/FaME/2017/007]
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
dc.rights.access	openAccess
utb.contributor.internalauthor	Kozubíková, Ludmila
utb.contributor.internalauthor	Zlámalová, Monika
utb.fulltext.affiliation	Ludmila KOZUBÍKOVÁ Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Faculty of Management and Economics, Zlín, Czech Republic kozubikova@fame.utb.cz Martin ČEPEL Paneuropean University in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovak Republic Monika ZLÁMALOVÁ Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Faculty of Management and Economics, Zlín, Czech Republic
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utb.fulltext.sponsorship	The authors would like to thank the Internal Grant Agency of FaME for providing financial support to carry out this research. Funding was extended through TBU No. IGA/FaME/2017/007 – Financial and nonfinancial factors of credit risk of small and medium-sized enterprises in the Czech Republic.
utb.wos.affiliation	[Kozubikova, Ludmila; Zlamalova, Monika] Tomas Bata Univ Zlin, Fac Management & Econ, Zlin, Czech Republic; [Cepel, Martin] Paneuropean Univ Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia
utb.scopus.affiliation	Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Faculty of Management and Economics, Zlín, Czech Republic; Paneuropean University in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia
utb.fulltext.projects	IGA/FaME/2017/007