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The Impact of Gender Diversity on the Performance of Business Teams: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
This discussion paper resulted in an article in <I>Management Science</I>. Volume 59 issue 7, pages 1514-1528.<P> This paper reports on a field experiment conducted to estimate the impact of the share of women in business teams on their performance. Teams consisting of undergraduate students in business...</p></i>
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Entrepreneurship and the Business Cycle
Koellinger, P.D.; Thurik, A.R. - Tinbergen Instituut
. This contradicts existing theoretical hypotheses which predict that entrepreneurship is pro-cyclical or not cyclical. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255833
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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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Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance: A Field Experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
One of the most salient and relevant dimensions of team heterogeneity is ethnicity. We measure the impact of ethnic diversity on the performance of business teams using a field experiment. We follow 550 students who set up 45 real companies as part of their curriculum in an international...
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Entrepreneurship Spillover and the determinants of Key Sectors for new business creation: An inter-sectorial approach
Massón-Guerra, José Luis; Vendrell-Ferrero, Ferran - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Whereas the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship focuses on the diffusion of innovative output and knowledge … entrepreneurship dissemination or entrepreneurship spillover among sectors. From an adaptation of the model of input-output matrix … (Leontief, 1936; Dietzenbacher and Los, 2002) we develop a methodology that allows calculating the concept of entrepreneurship …
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The Multipliers and Key Sectors of Entrepreneurship Spillover: An input-output approach
Massón-Guerra, José Luis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The Entrepreneurship Spillover evaluates the systemic effect of creating enterprises in different sectors and … industries from a new firm created in a given sector. One way to estimate these Entrepreneurship Spillovers is doing an … are: (a) to develop a methodology that allows calculating the concept of entrepreneurship spillover; (b) to identify the …
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The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Latinamerican Scoreborard: The impact of University-Industry Cooperation in Ecuador
Massón-Guerra, José Luis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
of the innovation and entrepreneurship in Latin-American Countries. …
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Measures of Science & Technology in Ecuador
Massón-Guerra, José Luis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
One of the structural problems in Latin-American has been the lower innovative capacity and lower generation of economically exploitable knowledge. This phenomenon has been produced by the absence of government’s incentives and strategies in order to be competitive inside the Knowledge Based...
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Impeded Industrial Restructuring: The Growth Penalty
Audretsch, D.B.; Carree, M.A.; Stel, A.J. van; Thurik, A.R. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000
This paper documents that a process of industrial restructuring has been transforming the developed economies, where large corporations are accounting for less economic activity and small firms are accounting for a greatershare of economic activity. Not all countries, however, are experiencing...
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