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Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship

Hsieh, Chihmao; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, C. Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

-averse peoplemight be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior researchhas generated mixed evidence about the … effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship. …

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Ability Dispersion and Team Performance: A Field Experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

This paper studies the impact of diversity in cognitive ability among members of a team on their performance. We conduct a large field experiment in which teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. Exogenous variation in - otherwise random - team composition is...

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Ability Dispersion and Team Performance

Hoogendoorn, Sander; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

What is the effect of dispersed levels of cognitive ability of members of a (business) team on their team’s performance? This paper reports the results of a field experiment in which 573 students in 49 teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. We ensured exogenous...

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How Culture Molds the Effects of Self Efficacy and Fear of Failure on Entrepreneurship

Wennberg, Karl; Pathak, Saurav; Autio, Erkko - Ratioinstitutet - 2013

We use data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) and the Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior … entrepreneurship. …

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Endogenous growth through knowledge spillovers in entrepreneurship: An empirical test

Delmar, Frédéric; Wennberg, Karl; Hellerstedt, Karin - Ratioinstitutet - 2011

analysis: First, do industries with a greater need for new technology-based entrepreneurship grow disproportionately faster …

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Untangling the relationships among growth, profitability and survival in new firms

Delmar, Frédéric; McKelvie, Alexander; Wennberg, Karl - Ratioinstitutet - 2013

The performance of new firms is important for economic development but research has produced limited knowledge about the key relationships among growth, profitability, and survival for new firms. Based on evolutionary theory, we develop a model about how new firms resolve uncertainty about their...

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Consequences of Cultural Practices for Entrepreneurial Behaviors

Autio, Erkko; Pathak, Saurav; Wennberg, Karl - Ratioinstitutet - 2013

Although national culture is an important regulator of entrepreneurship, there is a dearth of studies that (i) explore …-entry growth aspirations. We combined Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) and Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effec …-level techniques in analyzing the effect of culture on entrepreneurship. …

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Pragmatic entrepreneurs and institutionalized scholars? - On the path-dependent nature of entrepreneurship scholarship

Wennberg, Karl; Berglund, Henrik - Ratioinstitutet - 2014

Research surveys of the field of entrepreneurship suggest that the maturation and institutionalization of … entrepreneurship as a research field brings about both new opportunities and constraints from established thoughts and practices. In … research in entrepreneurship is becoming increasingly institutionalized with regard to different issues: successively …

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Entreprenörskap bland forskare – hur viktigt är det egentligen?

Wennberg, Karl - Ratioinstitutet - 2014

Denna artikel sammanfattar forskning om olika typer av kommersialiseringsmiljöer med bas i akademiska teorier och empiriska studier från Sverige. Målsättningen är att bidra till kritisk reflektion kring kommersialiseringsmiljöer och de policyåtgärder som myndigheter, universitet och...

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Small business exit: Review of past research, theoretical considerations and suggestions for future research

DeTienne, Dawn; Wennberg, Karl - Ratioinstitutet - 2013

outcomes operating at multiple levels of analysis. We do so because entrepreneurship research is often considered a … phenomenondriven academic field (Shane, 2003; Sorenson and Stuart, 2008) and entrepreneurship is in itself a multidimensional concept …

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