Psychological aspects of entrepreneurship - How personality and cognitive abilities influence leadership

Psychological testing is widely used in personal assessments for all hierarchy level and industries. In my Ph.D. thesis, I would like to investigate which additional benefit the application of valid scales and tests from organizational and differential psychology can add to predict entrepreneurial success of applicants. This research will be based on a comprehensive literature review of entrepreneurial traits and the identification of relevant variables for entrepreneurial success on individual basis. By focusing on some key abilities (e.g., creativity, dominance) and the selection of adequate and valid psychological scales and tests differences between entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs can be identified and relationships between individual traits and organizational success can be described.