Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 114
Cover Image
Interlocking Boards and Firm Performance: Evidence from a New Panel Database
Non, Mariëlle C.; Franses, Philip Hans - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
An interlock between two firms occurs if the firms share one or more directors in their boards of directors. We explore the effect of interlocks on firm performance for 101 large Dutch firms using a large and new panel database. We use five different performance measures, and for each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255468
Cover Image
Go Public or Stay Private: A Theory of Entrepreneurial Choice
Boot, Arnoud W.A.; Gopalan, Radhakrishnan; Thakor, Anjan V. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
In this paper we analyze an entrepreneur /manager's choice between private and public ownership in a setting in which management needs some "elbow room" or autonomy to optimally manage the firm. In public capital markets, the corporate governance regime in place exposes the firm to exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256028
Cover Image
Blockholder Dispersion and Firm Value
Konijn, Sander J.J.; Kraeussl, Roman; Lucas, Andre - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
This discussion paper resulted in a publication in the <I>Journal of Corporate Finance</I> (2011). Vol. 17, issue 5.<P> This paper analyzes the impact of blockownership dispersion on firm value. Blockholdings by multiple blockholders is a widespread phenomenon in the U.S. market. It is not clear, however,...</p></i>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257055
Cover Image
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>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272579
Cover Image
Risk Attitudes and Profits among Small Enterprises in Nigeria
Lammers, Judith; Willebrands, Daan; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255653
Cover Image
Illegal Entrepreneurship Experience
Aidis, Ruta; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
Existing studies show a positive relationship between entrepreneurs' business performance and their conventional human capital as measured by previous business experience and formal education. In this paper, we explore whether illegal entrepreneurship experience (IEE), an unconventional form of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255961
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255965
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256050
Cover Image
The Impact of a Culturally Diverse Workforce on Firms' Market Size: An Empirical Investigation on Germany
Brunow, Stephan; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
There is evidence from the literature that firms enjoy higher productivity levels when the workforce employed is … Ottaviano (2008) on heterogeneous firms, and add labour productivity by using the approach of Ottaviano and Peri (2005) on … diversity of the high-skilled workforce on the market size of single establishments. We conclude that emerging productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256077
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256204