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Do openness to experience and recognizing opportunities have the same genetic source?
Author(s) -
Shane Scott,
Nicolaou Nicos,
Cherkas Lynn,
Spector Tim D.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
human resource management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.888
H-Index - 94
eISSN - 1099-050X
pISSN - 0090-4848
DOI - 10.1002/hrm.20343
Subject(s) - openness to experience , affect (linguistics) , selection (genetic algorithm) , heritability , resource (disambiguation) , bivariate analysis , sample (material) , business , marketing , psychology , social psychology , computer science , biology , evolutionary biology , computer network , chemistry , communication , chromatography , artificial intelligence , machine learning
Recognizing opportunities for new businesses is an important part of the entrepreneurial process, one that researchers seek to explain and human resource managers seek to encourage. In this study, we examined whether the same genetic factors that affect openness to experience also influence recognizing opportunities. We applied bivariate genetics techniques to a sample of twins and found that a substantial part of the heritability of recognizing opportunities is mediated through genetic influences on openness to experience. Evidence of genetic effects on opportunity recognition has important implications for how companies might think about selection and training and raises important ethical issues in human resource management. ©2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.