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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 … entrepreneurs, managers and employees on a comprehensive set of measures of optimism and overconfidence (n = 2,058). The results … show that on average entrepreneurs are more optimistic than others in their dispositional optimism and attributional style …
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Entrepreneurship and role models
Bosma, Niels; Hessels, Jolanda; Schutjens, Veronique; … - 2011
intentions. However, empirical research aimed at establishing the importance of role models for (nascent) entrepreneurs is scarce … completed by a representative sample of 292 entrepreneurs in three major Dutch cities - entrepreneurs who have recently started …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011386370
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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 … conventional wisdom, we find that entrepreneurs have a stronger subjective Faith in Intuition than others. Their actual action … choices are partly in line with this: entrepreneurs make indeed more intuitive choices than managers, but are equally …
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Risk, balanced skills and entrepreneurship
Hsieh, Chihmao; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009720700
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010348405
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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 discussion in academia and practice alike. Oftentimes, however, the debate is not sufficiently grounded on solid empirical evidence. The academic literature is growing but very...
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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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Ability dispersion and team performance : a field experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010190989
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011572733
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The entrepreneurial ladder and its determinants
Zwan, Peter van der; Thurik, Adriaan R.; Grilo, Isabel - 2007
We test a new model where the entrepreneurial decision is described as a process of successive engagement levels, i.e., as an entrepreneurial ladder. Five levels are distinguished using nearly 12,000 observations from the 2004 “Flash Eurobarometer survey on Entrepreneurship” covering the 25...
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