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Personality traits, self-employment, and professions

Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2010

We investigate the effect of broad personality traits' - the Big Five - on an individua's decision to become self-employed. In particular, we test an overall indicator of the entrepreneurial personality. Since we find that the level of self-employment varies considerably across professions, we...

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Entrepreneurship and cultural creativity

Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2010

We investigate the relationship between cultural creativity and entrepreneurship in two respects: first, cultural and personal creativity as a characteristic of self-employed individuals; second, selfemployment in professions that can be classified as belonging to the "Creative Class" as...

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Self-employment after socialism : intergenerational links, entrepreneurial values, and human capital

Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2012

Drawing on representative household data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examine the role of an early precursor of entrepreneurial development - parental role models - for the individual decision to become self-employed in the post-unified Germany. The findings suggest that the...

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Product quality, product price, and share dynamics in the German compact car market

Cantner, Uwe; Krüger, Jens; Söllner, René - 2010

The present paper examines one of the central elements of evolutionary thinking - competition formalized by the replicator dynamics mechanism. Using data on product characteristics of automobiles sold on the German domestic market over the period 2001-2006, we construct a competitiveness or...

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Uniqueness seeking and demand estimation in the German automobile industry

Guerzoni, Marco; Soellner, René - 2009

This paper empirically analyzes the determinants of demand in the German automobile industry. Our primary goal is to refine the existing literature on that topic by exploring the impact of uniqueness seeking behaviour of individuals on the demand schedule. Using a dataset on the segment of...

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Envy and Altruism in Children

Häger, Kirsten - 2010

Envy and altruism have been studied extensively in adults. Here, we report data from an experiment studying envious and altruistic behavior in children. We study a sample of German school children aged seven to ten in a natural setting. We run two treatments. One treatment investigates envy, the...

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Egalitarian envy : cross-cultural variation in the development of envy in children

Häger, Kirsten; Oud, Bastian; Schunk, Daniel - 2012

much attention. To address this gap, we report the results of an artefactual field experiment that investigates and …

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Optimistic, but not in control : life-orientation and the theory of mixed control

Urbig, Diemo; Monsen, Erik - 2009

external factors, such as powerful others or chance. Furthermore, some authors suggest that internal control beliefs interact … with self-efficacy beliefs regarding their effects on outcome expectancies and thus optimism. We argue that it is not only … self-efficacy that interacts, but efficacy beliefs about external factors, too. We further hypothesize that the effect of …

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The use and effect of social capital in new venture creation : solo entrepreneurs vs. new venture teams

Cantner, Uwe; Stützer, Michael - 2010

This paper examines the use of social capital in the venture creation process. We compare solo entrepreneurs (n=182) and new venture teams (n=274) from a random sample of start-ups in innovative industries and test social capital use and its effects on firm performance. Our results reveal that...

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Who are the brokers of knowledge in regional systems of innovation? : a multi-actor network analysis

Kauffeld-Monz, Martina; Fritsch, Michael - 2008

The discussion on regional innovation systems emphasizes the duality of local and global links. While the former enable effective knowledge exchange between regional actors, the latter are considered to provide regional systems with knowledge diverse to their knowledge base. Our empirical...

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