Economic Psychology on "Personality and Entrepreneurship". The contributions are clustered around questions regarding the … autonomy and also external role models, have on entrepreneurial decision making. On a more general note, it is clear that more … for entrepreneurship research. …

performance and post-dissolution private and financial outcomes with a selected set of comparable firms and couples. We find … inequality in the household. We find no evidence of non-pecuniary benefits or costs of co-entrepreneurship. …

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs' performance as compared to employees'? What might explain any differences … show furthermore that entrepreneurs have higher returns to education than employees (in terms of the comparable performance … spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on …

crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …

individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation … innovation. …

country data to study the effect of product market regulation and reform on a country’s macroeconomic performance. After a … of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output …

In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of … performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and sustained effects of entrepreneurs at all levels of the performance … suggest that an often overlooked factor – individual entrepreneurs – plays a large role in affecting firm performance. …

that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What … answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation … group’? A fourth type of contribution studied is the role of entrepreneurship in increasing individuals’ utility levels …

survival, but lag behind regular business founders in terms of income, business growth and innovation. Moreover, we show that …

We refine modelling of the radical innovation decision in this paper by extending real option theory to include non … stochastic shocks imply that investment in radical innovation may very often be too time consuming and/or expensive to remain …