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survival, but lag behind regular business founders in terms of income, business growth and innovation. Moreover, we show that …
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entrepreneurship research. To assess relative workforce heterogeneity, we construct a simulated benchmark to which we compare observed …) hence appear to generally overweigh the benefits of heterogeneity (like greater variety in perspectives or more creativity …
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This paper empirically analyzes whether the character-based approach, which is based on the personality structure and the human capital of business founders, allows prediction of entrepreneurial success. A unique data set is used consisting of 414 previously unemployed persons whose personal...
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Risk attitudes have an impact on not only the decision to become an entrepreneur but also the survival and failure rates of entrepreneurs. Whereas recent research underpins the theoretical proposition of a positive correlation between risk attitudes and the decision to become an entrepreneur,...
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employed represent opportunity entrepreneurs because pull factors provide the rationale for their decision. However, a data set … between motives, survival rates and entrepreneurial development. We find in particular that start-ups out of opportunity and …
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Economic Psychology on "Personality and Entrepreneurship". The contributions are clustered around questions regarding the … for entrepreneurship research. …
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Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in both positively and negatively reciprocal ways. So far it is rarely analyzed whether these variables of social cognition influence everyday decision making behavior. We focus on entrepreneurs who are...
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one of the most prominent determinants of entrepreneurship – education – and approximately three times larger than …
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The influence of risk aversion on the decision to become self-employed is a much discussed topic in the entrepreneurial literature. Conventional wisdom asserts that the role model of an entrepreneur requires to make risky decisions in uncertain environments and hence that more risk-averse...
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We study the mapping between labor mobility and industrial innovative activity for the population of R&D active Danish firms observed between 1999 and 2004. Our study documents a positive relationship between the number of workers who join a firm and the firm's innovative activity. This...
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