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Ethnic diversity and team performance: A field experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander M.; van Praag, Mirjam - 2012

One of the most salient and relevant dimensions of team heterogeneity is ethnicity. We measure the causal impact of ethnic diversity on the performance of business teams using a randomized field experiment. We follow 550 students who set up 45 real companies as part of their curriculum in an...

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Ability dispersion and team performance: A field experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander M.; Parker, Simon Charles; van … - 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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Entrepreneurship and Public Policy

Henrekson, Magnus; Stenkula, Mikael - 2009

Public policy is currently shifting from SME policy towards entrepreneurship policy, which supports entrepreneurship … public policy affects the prevalence and performance of both productive entrepreneurship and so-called high …-impact entrepreneurship in turn. Although varying contexts and economic systems make prescribing a general panacea impossible, a number of …

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The Impact of Gender Diversity on the Performance of Business Teams: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Hoogendoorn, Sander; Oosterbeek, Hessel; van Praag, Mirjam - 2011

This paper reports about a field experiment conducted to estimate the impact of the share of women in business teams on their performance. Teams consisting of undergraduate students in business studies start up a venture as part of their curriculum. We manipulated the gender composition of teams...

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Ability Dispersion and Team Performance: A Field Experiment

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

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Ability Dispersion and Team Performance

Hoogendoorn, Sander; Parker, Simon C.; van Praag, Mirjam - 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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Jacks-of-All-Trades? The Effect of Balanced Skills on Team Performance

Rosendahl Huber, Laura; Sloof, Randolph; van Praag, Mirjam - 2014

specialists within one team. Our field experiment studies teams of children participating in an entrepreneurship education program …

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Neugegründete Unternehmen und ihre Entwicklung: Eine empirische Analyse anhand verschiedener Erfolgsdimensionen

Brink, Siegrun; Ivens, Sören; Nielen, Sebastian; … - 2018

Die vorliegende Studie widmet sich der Entwicklung neugegründeter Unternehmen in den ersten vier Jahren. Ziel war es anhand von verschiedenen Erfolgsdimensionen (Überleben am Markt, Deckung des Lebensunterhaltes und Schaffung von Arbeitsplätzen) zu analysieren, wie sich die Unternehmen in der...

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Illegal Entrepreneurship Experience

Aidis, Ruta; van Praag, Mirjam - 2004

entrepreneurship experience (IEE), an unconventional form of human capital, is related to the performance and motivation of …

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Job creation, job destruction and reallocation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Irm-level evidence from Kenyan manufacturing sector

Esaku, Stephen - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-22

Is the poor aggregate employment growth of the manufacturing sector in Sub-Saharan African countries the outcome of inadequate job creation or rival forces of job creation and job destruction acting in opposite direction? Using a unique dataset from the Kenyan manufacturing sector, we examine...

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