a study of the relationship between entrepreneural personality characteristics and the start-up of small- and medium-sized sport enterprises

the aim of this study was to determine the relationship between entrepreneurial personality characteristics and small and medium-sized sport enterprises start-up (smses). the methodology of this study was descriptive-correlation. population consisted of small and medium-sized sport enterprises (n=1500) and their owners and/or managers were randomly selected as the sample (n=258). for data collection, entrepreneurial personality (α=0.77) and smses start-up (α=0.81) questionnaires were used. descriptive and inferential statistics (pearson correlation coefficient, spearman correlation coefficient, point biserial correlation, kolmogorov-smirnov test and regression analysis) were used to analyze data. the results showed a positive significant relationship between entrepreneurial personality and start-up of enterprises and except for tolerance of ambiguity, all other entrepreneurial personality dimensions had a significant relationship with smses (p0.05). the findings of this study emphasized the vital role of entrepreneurial personality characteristics in flourishing start-up of small and medium-sized sport enterprises.