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Entrepreneurial choices of initial human capital endowments and new venture success

Rocha, Vera; Praag, Mirjam van; Folta, Timothy B.; … - 2016

The founder (team)'s human capital is a vital determinant of future firm performance. This is a stylized fact. Less is known about the effect of the human capital of the initial workforce hired by the founder(s). We study the performance consequences of a founder's choice of the initial...

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The "entrepreneurial boss" effect on employees' future entrepreneurship choices : a role model story?

Rocha, Vera; Praag, Mirjam van - 2016

Both organizational and sociological approaches in entrepreneurship research highlight the importance of social context … in shaping individual preferences for entrepreneurship. An influential contextual factor that has not been studied in … entrepreneurship research is one's boss at work. Do entrepreneurial bosses contribute to their employees' decisions to become …

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The Effect of Early Entrepreneurship Education : Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Rosendahl Huber, Laura - 2012

The aim of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of early entrepreneurship education. To this end, we conduct a … randomized field experiment to evaluate a leading entrepreneurship education program that is taught worldwide in the final grade …

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The 'Entrepreneurial Boss' Effect on Employees' Future Entrepreneurship Choices : A Role Model Story?

Rocha, Vera - 2016

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Entrepreneurial Choices of Initial Human Capital Endowments and New Venture Success

Rocha, Vera - 2016

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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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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 about...

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Team heterogeneity in startups and its development over time

Kaiser, Ulrich; Müller, Bettina - 2013

entrepreneurship research. To assess relative workforce heterogeneity, we construct a simulated benchmark to which we compare observed … is team additions had the same characteristics as the initial team members. -- entrepreneurship ; start-ups ; skill …

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Team Heterogeneity in Startups and its Development Over Time

Kaiser, Ulrich - 2013

entrepreneurship research. To assess relative workforce heterogeneity, we construct a simulated benchmark to which we compare observed …

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The Value of Publicly Available, Textual and Non-Textual Information for Startup Performance Prediction

Kaiser, Ulrich - 2020

Can publicly available, web-scraped data be used to identify promising business startups at an early stage? To answer this question, we use such textual and non-textual information about the names of Danish firms and their addresses as well as their business purpose statements (BPSs)...

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