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performance. Teams consisting of undergraduate students in business studies start up a venture as part of their curriculum. We … mechanisms suggested in the literature to explain this positive effect of gender diversity on performance (including …
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This paper analyses the effect of risk attitudes of firm owners on profits among micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Lagos, Nigeria. Higher risk perceptions are shown to have a significant positive effect on profits, whereas risk propensity has a negative or no effect. Education, age, being...
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Existing studies show a positive relationship between entrepreneurs' business performance and their conventional human … entrepreneurship experience (IEE), an unconventional form of human capital, is related to the performance and motivation of … business motivation. Moreover, younger entrepreneurs benefit from their IEE in terms of business performance, indicating that …
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This paper studies the impact of diversity in cognitive ability among members of a team on their performance. We … that team performance as measured in terms of sales, profits and profits per share first increases, and then decreases …
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What is the effect of dispersed levels of cognitive ability of members of a (business) team on their team’s performance … complex decision making. The key result of the experiment is that the performance of business teams first increases and then …
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There is evidence from the literature that firms enjoy higher productivity levels when the workforce employed is culturally more diverse. It is an open question whether this gain is utilized to shift the supply curve and set lower prices, in order to achieve a higher demand and possibly higher...
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diversity on the performance of business teams using a field experiment. We follow 550 students who set up 45 real companies as …. We find that a moderate level of ethnic diversity has no effect on team performance in terms of business outcomes (sales … diversity seems to affect the performance of teams positively. Our data suggest that this positive effect might be related to …
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This study analyses 1400 research projects of the top 20 R&D-spending pharmaceuticals to identify the determinants of successful research projects. We provide clear evidence that externally sourced projects and projects involving biotechnologies perform better than internal projects and chemical...
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This paper analyses the effect of uncertainty on investment spending. We analyse twotypes of investment, i.e. aggregate investment and investment in energy saving technologies,using subjective evaluations of expectations and uncertainty of Dutch firms in 1997. Weestimate several models...
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performance and postdissolution private and financial outcomes with a selected set of comparable firms and couples. We find …
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