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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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In this paper, we analyse where people who become self-employed actually start their firms. In the entrepreneurship … compared to the municipality of residence. Our results indicate that the entrepreneurship literature must reconsider its …
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This article introduces the special issue on Entrepreneurship and the Business Cycle, comprising articles presented at … the workshop Good Times Bad Times: Entrepreneurship and the Cycle, held at the University of Valencia in November 2011 …. The workshop was organized to share insights about the under-researched issue of the interplay between entrepreneurship …
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-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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255965
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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entrepreneurs from the Netherlands provides broad support for the theory; implications for policy-makers concerned about the …
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the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch …-averse people might be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior research has generated mixed evidence … about the effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399735
entrepreneurship, social capital and governance. We conclude firstly that the relationships between regional entrepreneurship, regional … between regional entrepreneurship, regional social capital, regional governance and regional economic development and some …
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The purpose of the paper is to show how entrepreneurship conditions vary between regions of various sizes, and test the … theoretical arguments on why large regions generally should generate more entrepreneurship. The paper empirically ana¬lyzes the … role of regional size in explaining varia¬tions in total entrepreneurship. It also examines en¬trepreneurship in different …
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