The Effect of Personality Traits on Entrepreneurial Spirit with the Mediating Role of Organizational Creative Climate (Case study: Managers of Hadid Ravan Knowledge Based Company)

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1 Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran.

2 Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Management, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran.

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Today, entrepreneurship is considered the driving force of organizational and economic development. Organizations can help continuously improve business and economic development by selecting individuals with entrepreneurial characteristics and creating a creative climate. The present study examined the effect of personality traits on entrepreneurial spirit through the mediator variable of organizational creative climate. This research was conducted using a survey method on 50 managers and standard questionnaires of the Big Five personality traits Costa & McCrae, the organizational creative climate Dul & Ceylan, and the entrepreneurial spirit of KordNaiej et al were used to measure the variables. SPSS26 and SmartPLS4 software were used to analyze the research data. The results showed that managers with higher entrepreneurial spirit generally have higher levels of experientialism, conscientiousness, and extraversion, while they have lower levels of agreeableness and neuroticism.The findings also indicate that although gender does not affect entrepreneurial spirit, this spirit is different at management levels (senior, middle, and operational) and senior managers have more entrepreneurial tendencies than middle and operational levels. Structural equation modeling analysis also confirms the effect of personality traits on entrepreneurial spirit through the mediating variable of organizational creative climate. These findings emphasize the importance of combining personality traits with a supportive organizational environment to foster entrepreneurship and show that organizations can activate the entrepreneurial potential of employees - regardless of gender - by creating a creative climate.

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Education and Management of Entrepreneurship
Volume 4, Issue 3 - Serial Number 12
October 2025
Pages 105-132

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  • Receive Date: 21 May 2025
  • Revise Date: 09 July 2025
  • Accept Date: 16 September 2025

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