Developing a Social Enterprise Performance Scale and Examining the Relationship Between Entrepreneurs’ Personality Traits and Their Perceived Enterprise Performance

摘要

On the basis of the lack of measurement tools and the research gap regarding socialudentrepreneurship, three studies were conducted to develop a new measure of socialudenterprise (SE) performance that is empirically valid and easy to administer. Theudpurpose of this measure was to examine the relationship between entrepreneurs’udpersonality traits and their perceived SE performance. The results indicated that SEudperformance can be assessed using four dimensions: personal issues, social aspects,udbusiness elements, and service programmes. Extraversion positively influenced serviceudprogrammes, and openness negatively affected service programmes. Neuroticismudand conscientiousness positively predicted personal issues and service programmes,udand agreeableness positively predicted all dimensions of perceived SE performance.udThe results also demonstrated the curvilinear relationship of the U-shaped curveudbetween neuroticism and personal issues and the social aspects of SE performance.udFurthermore, the results showed the curvilinear relationship of the inverted U-shapedudcurve between agreeableness and the four dimensions of SE performance.