After Further Sightings of the Heffalump

Abstract

In 1971, Kilby likened research about the psychology of entrepreneurs to search for a “heffalump”, with no convincing descriptions resulting from the research. This paper surveys later research which compares entrepreneurs with other people, and concludes that more is now known about the psychology of entrepreneurs, but that entrepreneurs are not as different from other groups within the general population, managers included, as was once assumed.

Citation

Perry, C. (1990), "After Further Sightings of the Heffalump", Journal of Managerial Psychology, Vol. 5 No. 2, pp. 22-31. https://doi.org/10.1108/02683949010141589