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Aidis, Ruta; van Praag, Mirjam - 2004

Existing studies show a positive relationship between entrepreneurs' business performance and their conventional human capital as measured by previous business experience and formal education. In this paper, we explore whether illegal entrepreneurship experience (IEE), an unconventional form of...

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The Impact of Gender Diversity on the Performance of Business Teams: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander; Oosterbeek, Hessel; van Praag, Mirjam - 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.; van Praag, Mirjam - 2012

This paper studies the impact of diversity in cognitive ability among members of a team on their performance. We conduct a large field experiment in which teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. Exogenous variation in - otherwise random - team composition is...

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Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance: A Field Experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander; van Praag, Mirjam - 2012

One of the most salient and relevant dimensions of team heterogeneity is ethnicity. We measure the causal impact of ethnic diversity on the performance of business teams using a randomized field experiment. We follow 550 students who set up 45 real companies as part of their curriculum in an...

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Ability Dispersion and Team Performance

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

What is the effect of dispersed levels of cognitive ability of members of a (business) team on their team's 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.; van Praag, Mirjam - 2012

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014039713

Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance : A Field Experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander; van Praag, Mirjam - 2014

One of the most salient and relevant dimensions of team heterogeneity is ethnicity. We measure the impact of ethnic diversity on the performance of business teams using a field experiment. We follow 550 students who set up 45 real companies as part of their curriculum in an international...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014040491

Gigerenzer the Decided: A Tale of Difficult Distinctions

Heukelom, Floris - 2005

This paper provides an overview of the work of Gigerenzer, thereby focusing on his criticisms of the Heuristics and Biases theory of Kahneman and Tversky. It is proposed that Gigerenzer's work can be both thematically and chronologically organized as: historical research on statistics =...

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Do More Powerful Interest Groups have a Disproportionate Influence on Policy?

Sharif, Zara; Swank, Otto H. - 2012

Decisions-makers often rely on information supplied by interested parties. In practice, some parties have easier access … to information than other parties. In this light, we examine whether more powerful parties have a disproportionate … terms, decisions do not depend on the relative strength of interested parties. When parties have not provided information …

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Investment, Expectations and Uncertainty: Empirical Evidence on the Relevance of Firm Size

Koetse, Mark J.; van der Vlist, Arno J.; de Groot, … - 2003

This paper analyses the effect of uncertainty on investment spending. We analyse twotypes of investment, i.e. aggregate investment and investment in energy saving technologies,using subjective evaluations of expectations and uncertainty of Dutch firms in 1997. Weestimate several models...

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