Economic and Psychological Factors in Entrepreneurial Tendency

Abstract

In the actual context of global economical crisis, the research question we raised was: Which of the personality traits, formerly associated with entrepreneurship, remain sufficiently stable/strong to overcome the negative economic conditions? That was the starting point to propose experimental evaluation of the possible effect of certain factors such as the economical crisis context/information regarding the economy status and the personal perception regarding the money source/value as regards to the tendency of investing in a small business of the youngsters with a high Internal Locus of Control level.

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Tendency, Global Crisis, Experiment, Romania, ULBS

JEL Classification: C91, E22