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The Right Stuff? Personality and Entrepreneurship

Hamilton, Barton Hughes - 2018

entrepreneurship. Previous work has recognized that workers may opt for self-employment due to the non-pecuniary benefits of running a … reveals that the personality traits that make entrepreneurship profitable are not always the same traits driving people to … open a business. This has important consequences for entrepreneurship policies. For example, subsidies for small businesses …

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Explaining International Differences in Entrepreneurship : The Role of Individual Characteristics and Regulatory Constraints

Ardagna, Silvia - 2008

the workforce are important determinants of entrepreneurship, and we also highlight the relevance of social networks, self …

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The analysis of firms and employees : quantitative and qualitative approaches

Bender, Stefan (contributor); Lane, Julia (contributor); … - 2008

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Special issue on NBER conference on the causes and consequences of corporate culture

Schwert, George William (ed.) - NBER Conference on the Causes and Consequences of …; … - 2015

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Expanding the Measurement of Culture with a Sample of Two Billion Humans

Obradovich, Nick - 2020

Culture has played a pivotal role in human evolution. Yet, the ability of social scientists to study culture is limited by the currently available measurement instruments. Scholars of culture must regularly choose between scalable but sparse survey-based methods or restricted but rich...

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Worker Empowerment and Subjective Evaluation : On Building an Effective Conflict Culture

MacLeod, William Bentley - 2020

Although conflicts typically lead to a waste of resources, organizations may still benefit from a corporate culture that tolerates or even encourages conflicts. The reason is that coordinated conflicts may help to enforce informal contracts and foster cooperation. In this paper we report results...

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Corporate Culture, Societal Culture, and Institutions

Guiso, Luigi - 2015

While both cultural and legal norms (institutions) help foster cooperation, culture is the more primitive of the two and itself sustains formal institutions. Cultural changes are rarer and slower than changes in legal institutions, which makes it difficult to identify the role played by culture....

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The Value of Corporate Culture

Guiso, Luigi - 2013

We study which dimensions of corporate culture are related to a firm's performance and why. We find that proclaimed values appear irrelevant. Yet, when employees perceive top managers as trustworthy and ethical, firm's performance is stronger. We then study how different governance structures...

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Unethical Culture, Suspect CEOs and Corporate Misbehavior

Biggerstaff, Lee - 2013

We show that firms with CEOs who personally benefitted from options backdating were more likely to engage in other forms of corporate misbehavior, suggestive of an unethical corporate culture. These firms were more likely to overstate firm profitability and to engage in less profitable...

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Executives' "Off-The-Job" Behavior, Corporate Culture, and Financial Reporting Risk

Davidson, Robert - 2012

We examine how executives' behavior outside the workplace, as measured by their ownership of luxury goods (low "frugality") and prior legal infractions, is related to financial reporting risk. We predict and find that CEOs and CFOs with a legal record are more likely to perpetrate fraud. In...

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