2.4 Hypothesis: Reasoning from the arguments posited in the previous paragraphs, I pose the following hypothesis, is the research question of this paper: Average managers' openness to experience will have a positive influence on company revenues. The following chapter will elaborate on the methodology of this research, as well as information concerning the data. 3. Data and Methodology In this section, the data collection and the methodology of this is explained. This research aims to uncover the relationship between the Openness to Experience of managers and the consecutive financial performance of their company. 3.1 Research design As mentioned, I will focus on managers from both successful and unsuccessful companies, and I will define a company as unsuccessful when the bank has declared that the company is under "Bijzonder Beheer" or, in English: Special Asset Management (SAM). This means that the bank has serious doubts whether or not the company is able to keep paying its bills and thus decides that the company needs help in becoming financially healthy again or help concerning termination, to ensure that the loss is kept to a minimum. Unfortunately, I was not allowed to get more information about which criteria are used to determine whether or not a company should be under SAM. However, the binary division of successful and unsuccessful is sufficient for this research, for it is only used to determine the type of company that is studied. The factor Openness to Experience is part of the Big Five Factor which is the reason I chose the standard IPIP 50-item questionnaire to use in my survey. To study the outcomes appropriately, the survey responses will be aggregated per company.
2.4 Hypothesis: Reasoning from the arguments posited in the previous paragraphs, I pose the following hypothesis, is the research question of this paper: Average managers' openness to experience will have a positive influence on company revenues. The following chapter will elaborate on the methodology of this research, as well as information concerning the data. 3. Data and Methodology In this section, the data collection and the methodology of this is explained. This research aims to uncover the relationship between the Openness to Experience of managers and the consecutive financial performance of their company. 3.1 Research design As mentioned, I will focus on managers from both successful and unsuccessful companies, and I will define a company as unsuccessful when the bank has declared that the company is under "Bijzonder Beheer" or, in English: Special Asset Management (SAM). This means that the bank has serious doubts whether or not the company is able to keep paying its bills and thus decides that the company needs help in becoming financially healthy again or help concerning termination, to ensure that the loss is kept to a minimum. Unfortunately, I was not allowed to get more information about which criteria are used to determine whether or not a company should be under SAM. However, the binary division of successful and unsuccessful is sufficient for this research, for it is only used to determine the type of company that is studied. The factor Openness to Experience is part of the Big Five Factor which is the reason I chose the standard IPIP 50-item questionnaire to use in my survey. To study the outcomes appropriately, the survey responses will be aggregated per company.