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Searching for the Entrepreneurial Personality: New Evidence and Avenues for Further Research
Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Economic Psychology on "Personality and Entrepreneurship". The contributions are clustered around questions regarding the … for entrepreneurship research. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147304
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Is entrepreneurial success predictable? An ex-ante analysis of the character-based approach
Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper empirically analyzes whether the character-based approach, which is based on the personality structure and the human capital of business founders, allows prediction of entrepreneurial success. A unique data set is used consisting of 414 previously unemployed persons whose personal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683729
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Risk Attitudes of Nascent Entrepreneurs: New Evidence from an Experimentally Validated Survey
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The in°uence of risk aversion on the decision to become self-employed is a much discussed topic in the entrepreneurial literature. Conventional wisdom asserts that being an entrepreneur means making risky decisions in uncertain environments; hence more risk-averse individuals are less likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683735
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Trust, Positive Reciprocity, and Negative Reciprocity: Do These Traits Impact Entrepreneurial Dynamics?
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in both positively and negatively … willingness to trust other people influences the probability of starting a business; ii) trust, positive reciprocity, and negative … reciprocity influence the exit probability of entrepreneurs; and iii) willingness to trust and to act reciprocally influences the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764580
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Trust, Positive Reciprocity, and Negative Reciprocity: Do These Traits Impact Entrepreneurial Dynamics?
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in both positively and negatively … willingness to trust other people influences the probability of starting a business; ii) trust, positive reciprocity, and negative … reciprocity influence the exit probability of entrepreneurs; and iii) willingness to trust and to act reciprocally influences the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008765038
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The Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship: Not Just a Matter of Personality
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank; Kritikos, Alexander; … - CESifo - 2014
Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775095
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Trust, Positive Reciprocity, and Negative Reciprocity: Do These Traits Impact Entrepreneurial Dynamics?
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in both positively and negatively … willingness to trust other people influences the probability of starting a business; ii) trust, positive reciprocity, and negative … reciprocity influence the exit probability of entrepreneurs; and iii) willingness to trust and to act reciprocally influences the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784518
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Trust, positive reciprocity, and negative reciprocity: Do these traits impact entrepreneurial dynamics?
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank; Kritikos, Alexander - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 33 (2012) 2, pp. 394-409
Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in both positively and negatively … willingness to trust other people influences the probability of starting a business; (ii) trust, positive reciprocity, and … negative reciprocity influence the exit probability of entrepreneurs; and (iii) willingness to trust and to act reciprocally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010573775
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Personality characteristics and the decisions to become and stay self-employed
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank; Kritikos, Alexander - In: Small Business Economics 42 (2014) 4, pp. 787-814
Based on a large, representative German household panel, we investigate to what extent the personality of individuals influences the entry decision into and the exit decision from self-employment. We reveal that some traits, such as openness to experience, extraversion, and risk tolerance affect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010988570
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The Impact of Risk Attitudes on Entrepreneurial Survival
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2008
Risk attitudes have an impact on not only the decision to become an entrepreneur but also the survival and failure rates of entrepreneurs. Whereas recent research underpins the theoretical proposition of a positive correlation between risk attitudes and the decision to become an entrepreneur,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600754