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The impact of gender diversity on the performance of business teams : evidence from a field experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Praag, Mirjam van - 2011

This paper reports about 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 manipulated the gender composition of teams...

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Are entrepreneurs more optimistic and overconfident than managers and employees?

Koudstaal, Martin; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2015

Empirical evidence supports the conventional wisdom that entrepreneurs are more optimistic and overconfident than others. However, the same holds true for top managers. In this lab-in-the-field experiment we directly compare the scores of entrepreneurs, managers and employees on a comprehensive...

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The Schumpeterian entrepreneur : a review of the empirical evidence on the antecedents, behavior, and consequences of innovative entrepreneurship

Block, Jörn; Fisch, Christian; Praag, Mirjam van - 2016

Innovative entrepreneurship is considered an important pillar for economic development and has sparked a lively … that takes stock of the academic knowledge about innovative entrepreneurship and summarizes the evidence from 102 empirical … innovative entrepreneurship. Based on this state-of-the-art literature review, directions for future research are discussed. …

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Badge of honor or scarlet letter? : unpacking investors' judgment of entrepreneurs' past failure

Zunino, Diego; Praag, Mirjam van; Dushnitsky, Gary - 2017

Research shows that most ventures fail, yet it has devoted limited attention to the consequences of entrepreneursâ€™ past failure for investors' decisions. Our motivating insight is that failure can be due to bad luck, lack of skill or both. Therefore, failure conveys ambiguous information...

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The origins and extent of entrepreneurial action-orientedness : an experimental study

Barirani, Ahmad; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2017

We test the hypothesis, based on popular and theoretical perspectives, that entrepreneurs are more action-oriented than other occupational groups. We compare their playing strategies in an optimal stopping game using a randomized online experiment among 100s of entrepreneurs, managers and...

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Intuitive versus contemplative : do entrepreneurs differ in their decision-making style from managers and employees?

Koudstaal, Martin; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2017

We examine in a large survey (n = 1,928) how contemplative entrepreneurs, managers and employees are in their decision making styles. Besides two well-known subjective measures taken from psychology, we also build on Rubinstein (2016) by including two objective measures derived from response...

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Risk, balanced skills and entrepreneurship

Hsieh, Chihmao; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2011

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Ability dispersion and team performance

Hoogendoorn, Sander; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2014

What is the effect of dispersed levels of cognitive ability of members of a (business) team on their teamś 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...

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Ability dispersion and team performance : a field experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2012

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Why do entrepreneurial parents have entrepreneurial children?

Lindquist, Matthew J.; Sol, Joeri; Praag, Mirjam van - 2012

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