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This paper analyses the effect of risk attitudes of firm owners on profits among micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Lagos, Nigeria. Higher risk perceptions are shown to have a significant positive effect on profits, whereas risk propensity has a negative or no effect. Education, age, being...
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This paper studies the impact of diversity in cognitive ability among members of a team on their performance. We … that team performance as measured in terms of sales, profits and profits per share first increases, and then decreases …
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What is the effect of dispersed levels of cognitive ability of members of a (business) team on their team’s performance … complex decision making. The key result of the experiment is that the performance of business teams first increases and then …
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diversity on the performance of business teams using a field experiment. We follow 550 students who set up 45 real companies as …. We find that a moderate level of ethnic diversity has no effect on team performance in terms of business outcomes (sales … diversity seems to affect the performance of teams positively. Our data suggest that this positive effect might be related to …
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This paper analyses the effect of risk attitudes of firm owners on profits among micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Lagos, Nigeria. Higher risk perceptions are shown to have a significant positive effect on profits, whereas risk propensity has a negative or no effect. Education, age, being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008838628
performance. Teams consisting of undergraduate students in business studies start up a venture as part of their curriculum. We … mechanisms suggested in the literature to explain this positive effect of gender diversity on performance (including …
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performance and postdissolution private and financial outcomes with a selected set of comparable firms and couples. We find …
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> Human capital obtained through education has been shown to be one of the strongest drivers of entrepreneurship performance … following proposition: The performance of an entrepreneur is not only affected positively by her own education level but in … year <I>t</I> and several measures of the performance of individual entrepreneurs in that same country and year, including …
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performance. The entrepreneur's human capital is, though, only one of the input factors into the production process of her venture … formulate the following proposition: The performance of an entrepreneur is not only affected positively by her own education …>j</I> and year <I>t</I> and several measures of the performance of individual entrepreneurs in that same country and year …
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Existing studies show a positive relationship between entrepreneurs' business performance and their conventional human … entrepreneurship experience (IEE), an unconventional form of human capital, is related to the performance and motivation of … business motivation. Moreover, younger entrepreneurs benefit from their IEE in terms of business performance, indicating that …
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