ventures together in teams. In this paper we test whether the effect of more balanced skills is also positive in a team of … specialists within one team. Our field experiment studies teams of children participating in an entrepreneurship education program … results show that balanced skills are beneficial to team performance, and that it is hard to substitute individual balanced …

What is the effect of dispersed levels of cognitive ability of members of a (business) team on their teamś performance … complex decision making. The key result of the experiment is that the performance of business teams first increases and then … to teams based on their measured cognitive abilities (Raven test). Each team performs a variety of tasks, often involving …

shirking members in those teams. -- ability dispersion ; team performance ; field experiment ; entrepreneurship ; knowledge …This paper studies the impact of diversity in cognitive ability among members of a team on their performance. We … variation in - otherwise random - team composition is imposed by assigning individuals to teams based on their measured …

We examine in a large survey (n = 1,928) how contemplative entrepreneurs, managers and employees are in their decision …

Parker and Van Praag (2009) showed, based on theory, that the group status of the profession ‘entrepreneurship’ shapes … consequences of the group status of a profession, entrepreneurship in particular. If the group status of entrepreneurship is … the status of the entrepreneur. For reasons outlined in the introduction, this study focuses on (800) students in the …