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This paper examines financial professionals' overconfidence in their forecasting performance. We are the first to … compare individual financial professionals' self-ratings with their true forecasting performance. Data spans several years at … monthly frequency. The forecasters in our sample do not provide feasible self-ratings compared to their true performance but …
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To overcome the problem of declining performance, organizations need a variety of professional experience portfolio and …, except for the direct effect of the professional experience portfolio on employee performance. Thus, the role of pro … professional experience portfolio toward employee performance. It takes an appropriate linear and crossfield experience for …
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In this paper we present an occupational choice model for entrepreneurs, in which, based on their individual skills and on the quality of their business, entrepreneurs can keep their original business, open a new business in the same or another sector along the current business (portfolio...
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performance. Whereas research already dealt with this learning-caused performance increase of successive business ventures, it … stock of knowledge gained through learning influences entrepreneurial re-emergence, particularly future venture performance …
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business, and who recall their business management experience positively are likely to harbour restart intentions. Only 'being …
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This study is the first to examine the decision to re-enter business ownership by entrepreneurs who have exited their first business using a longitudinal matched employer-employee database. This kind of data allow us to distinguish between those serial entrepreneurs who re-enter business...
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This article studies entrepreneurial activities emerging out of one of Germany's most prominent dot.com firms: Intershop, a maker of e-commerce software. We show that Intershop spawned at least 30 spin-offs. The majority entered locally, giving rise to a small but growing software cluster and...
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The success of new start-up firms often depends on timing. It is valuable for the potential entrepreneur to wait for the right moment before starting a new firm. In this paper we provide a theoretical model to determine the optimal time for starting a new firm. We integrate insights from the...
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New business formation is a key driver of regional transformation and development. While we know that a region's attractiveness for new businesses depends on its resources, infrastructure, and human capital, we know little about the role of local business networks in promoting or impeding the...
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We propose a behavioural model of technological change with evolutionary switching between boundedly rational costly innovators and free imitators, and study the endogenous interplay of innovation decisions, market price dynamics and technological progress. Innovation and imitation are strategic...
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