Does individual resilience influence entrepreneurial success?

The purpose of this paper is to explore if a well-accepted conceptualization of individual level resilience can be used to predict entrepreneurial success, thus offering the field an operationalization of resilience in entrepreneurs. Whilst many accept the importance of entrepreneurial resilience, it remains largely a metaphor applied to any aspect of entrepreneurship, from individual level to business to system level resilience. We explore resilience in a sample of 215 founding entrepreneurs and use regression analysis to examine the relationship between resilience and entrepreneurial success as indicated by individual level variables, and between resilience and entrepreneurial success as indicated by…