1. NONPROFIT LEADERS AND FOR-PROFIT ENTREPRENEURS: SIMILAR PEOPLE WITH DIFFERENT MOTIVATION.
- Author
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Lukeš, Martin and Stephan, Ute
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BUSINESS enterprises , *PERSONALITY , *MOTIVATION (Psychology) , *BUSINESSPEOPLE , *NONPROFIT organizations , *PROFIT - Abstract
Today's market conditions require nonprofit leaders to act in an increasingly business-like fashion. This study asks whether NPO leaders have a similar disposition to act entrepreneurially as for-profit entrepreneurs, but hold different underlying motives. For this purpose, the study contrasts a sample of 72 leaders of nonprofit organizations with 117 entrepreneurs on their personality traits and explicit motives using standard personality tests and interviews. Both groups exhibit similar general and entrepreneurship- specific personality traits but differ significantly regarding their motivation. While nonprofit leaders' motivation stems primarily from the meaningfulness of their work; entrepreneurs are mainly motivated by the independence as well as by the income and profit provided by their work. This paper helps us understand who leaders of nonprofit organizations are. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012