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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2023
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
ifh Working Paper No. 40/2023
Verlag: 
Volkswirtschaftliches Institut für Mittelstand und Handwerk an der Universität Göttingen (ifh), Göttingen
Zusammenfassung: 
Digital transformation determines the long-term viability of SMEs but poses particular challenges for crafts SMEs due to their lack of resources and their individualized products and services. We argue that the unique personality of a crafts owner is a missing link in the literature on the firm-level drivers of digitalization. Using the Big Five personality model, data of 554 crafts SMEs and quantitative methods, our results provide evidence that the personality traits of extraversion and openness are particularly beneficial for overall digitalization in crafts companies. Furthermore, we show that different personality traits are important at different maturity levels of digitalization and that the effect of personality on digitalization is to some extent mediated by the owner's local embeddedness.
Schlagwörter: 
Digital transformation
Crafts
Personality
Big Five
SMEs
JEL: 
O31
O32
Dokumentart: 
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