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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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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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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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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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The effect of early entrepreneurship education : evidence from a randomized field experiment
Rosendahl Huber, Laura; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2012
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How do entrepreneurial bosses influence their employees' euture entrepreneurship choices?
Rocha, Vera; Praag, Mirjam van - 2016
employees towards becoming entrepreneurs: exit from the current firm and entry into entrepreneurship. In other words, we study … show that same-gender entrepreneurial bosses have a great impact on employees’ future entrepreneurship choices, especially … bosses on female employees’ transition into entrepreneurship. We show that the female boss effect is greater than other …
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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 entrepreneurs’ 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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