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 studies start up a venture as part of their curriculum. We …

We extend Lazear’s theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical … framework linking new business creation with an entrepreneur’s skill variety. Second, in this model we allow for both … Netherlands. Individuals with more varied work experience seems indeed more likely to successfully start up a new business and …

-averse peoplemight be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior researchhas generated mixed evidence about the … effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship. …

countries. First, the concepts of uncertainty and risk are elaborated, as well as theirrelevance for entrepreneurship. Second … for GDP per capita, yields evidence thatuncertainty avoidance is positively correlated with the prevalence of business … (uncertaintyavoidance) may have a diverging impact on entrepreneurship. Possibly, a climate of uncertainty avoidancein large organizations …

See also the publication in <I>Small Business Economics</I> (2013), 40(3), 651-670.<P> Job satisfaction of self …

period 1972-2007 show that entrepreneurial activity is a leading indicator of the business cycle in a Granger-causality sense …. This contradicts existing theoretical hypotheses which predict that entrepreneurship is pro-cyclical or not cyclical. We …