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Ability Dispersion and Team Performance: A Field Experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander M.; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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Good times, bad times: entrepreneurship and the business cycle

Llopis, Juan A. Sanchis; Millán, José María; … - Departament d'Estructura Econòmica, Facultad de Economía - 2015

This article introduces the special issue on Entrepreneurship and the Business Cycle, comprising articles presented at … the workshop Good Times Bad Times: Entrepreneurship and the Cycle, held at the University of Valencia in November 2011 …. The workshop was organized to share insights about the under-researched issue of the interplay between entrepreneurship …

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Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship

Hsieh, Chihmao; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, C. Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

-averse peoplemight be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior researchhas generated mixed evidence about the … effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship. …

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Ability Dispersion and Team Performance: A Field Experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

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Ability Dispersion and Team Performance

Hoogendoorn, Sander; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 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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The Entrepreneur's Mode of Entry: Business Takeover or New Venture Start?

Parker, Simon C.; Praag, C. Mirjam van - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

We analyse the decision to become an entrepreneur by either taking over an established business or starting a new venture from scratch. A model is developed which predicts how several individual- and firm-specific characteristics influence entrepreneurs' entry mode. The new venture creation mode...

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Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship

Hsieh, Chihmao; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, C. Mirjam van - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch …-averse people might be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior research has generated mixed evidence … about the effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship. …

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Entrepreneurship Among Married Couples in the United States: A Simultaneous Probit Approach

Parker, Simon C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This article proposes a simultaneous probit equation framework to analyse the business ownership patterns of married couples in the United States. A structural model of knowledge spillovers within couples is formulated and estimated. Empirical analysis reveals significant and substantial...

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The Entrepreneur’s Mode of Entry: Business Takeover or New Venture Start

Parker, Simon C.; Praag, C. Mirjam van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

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A Selection-Based Theory of the Transition from Employment to Entrepreneurship: The Role of Employer Size

Parker, Simon C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

A simple occupational choice model is used to predict that entrepreneurs who found new firms are more likely to work for small than for large firms prior to start-up. The mechanism underlying the result is heterogeneous risk aversion. The model also predicts a positive association between new...

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