Based on the person-entrepreneurship fit perspective, this study examines the role of personal factors, including broad personality traits (openness, extraversion, emotional stability, and conscientiousness), narrow traits (risk-taking propensity, innovativeness, and proactiveness), and personal ability (emotional intelligence) for entrepreneurial intention and status. In this study, two samples are used with entrepreneurial intentions being analyzed among university business students and entrepreneurial status being analyzed by surveying entrepreneurs versus employees. We analyze findings in three different institutional environments (Germany, Russia, and the USA) to also identify potential effects stemming from country context. Therefore, this study offers findings for a (i) comprehensive set of personal factors on (ii) different outcomes in the entrepreneurial process in (iii) different countries. The results suggest that the role of broad personality traits for entrepreneurial outcomes is highly contextual. Also, the role of narrow traits shows some contextuality for which further theorizing is promoted—for instance, while risk-taking propensity seems to be a trait of relevance in all contexts, innovativeness and proactiveness are of different relevance in the different institutional environments. Moreover, the narrow traits that impact entrepreneurial intention and status differ considerably—for instance, innovation is of special relevance for entrepreneurial status, but less important for entrepreneurial intentions. Hence, this study contributes to our understanding not only of individual personal factors contributing to entrepreneurial intention and status but also to understanding which factors overlap for individuals who intend to start a new business and those that do so.

基于个人与企业家精神的契合度，本研究考察了个人因素的作用，包括广泛的人格特质（开放，性格外向，情绪稳定和尽责），狭窄的特质（冒险倾向，创新性和积极性）以及个人因素具有创业意向和地位的能力（情绪智力）。在这项研究中，使用了两个样本，对大学商科学生的创业意向进行了分析，并通过对企业家与员工进行了调查来分析了企业家的地位。我们分析了三种不同制度环境（德国，俄罗斯和美国）中的发现，以找出国家背景带来的潜在影响。所以，这项研究为（i）关于（ii）（iii）不同国家的创业过程中的不同结果的一系列综合个人因素提供了发现。结果表明，广泛的人格特质对于创业成果的作用是高度关联的。同样，狭义特征的作用显示出一定的情境性，因此可以促进进一步的理论化-例如，冒险倾向似乎是在所有情境中都具有相关性的特征，而创新性和积极性在不同的制度环境中具有不同的相关性。此外，影响企业家意图和地位的狭窄特征也有很大差异，例如，创新与企业家地位特别相关，但对企业家意图的重要性不那么重要。因此，