Heineck, GuidoGuidoHeineck0000-0001-5164-1332Viinikainen, JuttaJuttaViinikainenBöckerman, PetriPetriBöckermanHintsanen, MirkaMirkaHintsanenRaitakari, OlliOlliRaitakariPehkonen, JaakkoJaakkoPehkonen2019-09-192017-12-0420172352-6734https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/handle/uniba/42785Is there an entrepreneurial personality, and does it appear early in life? We provide a new answer to this important question by examining traits related to Type A behavior (Aggression, Leadership, Responsibility, and Eagerness-Energy) measured during adolescence and their relationship to entrepreneurship propensity in adulthood. The results indicate that the early-life Leadership dimension is significantly associated with a higher likelihood of 1) becoming an entrepreneur and 2) being more successful as an entrepreneur, as approximated by sales.engEntrepreneurship, Personality, Type A behaviorarticle10.1016/j.jbvi.2017.05.001http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352673417300562