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- Aad, G., et al.
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- 2013
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In: Journal of Instrumentation. - 1748-0221. ; 8
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)
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- Chaturvedi, Sankarp, et al.
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The heritability of emergent leadership : age and gender as moderating factors
- 2012
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In: Leadership Quarterly. - : Elsevier. - 1048-9843 .- 1873-3409. ; 23:2, s. 219-232
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this study, we examined the moderating influences of gender and age with respect to testing the heritability of leadership emergence. A large data base of 12,112 twins from Sweden was used in the current study to decompose the variance of emergentleadership into an unobservable genetic component and environmental components that are either common or unshared among twin pairs. Consistent with prior leadership research on genetics, we found that a genetic factor is able to explain a significant proportion of the variation across individuals in predicting how twins perceive their emergentleadership behavior (about 44% for women and 37% for men). Furthermore, we also found that the magnitude of genetic influence on emergentleadership varied with age, but only for women with the heritability estimate being highest for the mid-age women versus lowest for the older women. Implications for advancing research on the genetic and environmental influences on leadership emergence are discussed.
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- Zhang, Zhen, et al.
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The genetic basis of entrepreneurship : Effects of gender and personality
- 2009
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In: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. - Amsterdam, Holland : Elsevier Inc. - 0749-5978 .- 1095-9920. ; 110:2, s. 93-107
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Extending previous research on the genetic underpinnings of entrepreneurship, we investigate gender differences in the genetic influences on the tendency of people to become entrepreneurs. We also examined two mediating variables through which genetic factors may impact this tendency: extraversion and neuroticism. Based on 1285 pairs of identical twins (449 male and 836 female pairs) and 849 pairs of same-sex fraternal twins (283 male and 566 female pairs), we found that females have a strong genetic influence and zero shared-environmental influences on their tendency to become entrepreneurs. In contrast, males show zero genetic influence, but a large shared-environmental influence. Extraversion and neuroticism mediate the genetic influences on women's tendency to become entrepreneurs, whereas extraversion mediates shared-environmental influences on men's tendency to become entrepreneurs. We discuss this sharp difference in genetic influences on entrepreneurship across gender groups and highlight the different challenges that men and women face in their entrepreneurial endeavors.
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