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Integrating Corporate Social Responsibility at the Start-up Level: Constraint or Catalyst for Opportunity Identification?
Lefebvre, Vincent; Lefebvre, Miruna Radu - HAL - 2012
This conceptual paper examines the issue of integrating CSR at the start-up level with the aim of increasing the firm's ability to identify new opportunities. Both a constraint and an occasion to strengthen the company's legitimacy and competitive advantage, CSR principles and practices are a...
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Personality, IQ, and Lifetime Earnings
Gensowski, Miriam - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Talented individuals are seen as drivers of long-term growth, but how do they realize their full potential? In this paper, I show that even in a group of high-IQ men and women, lifetime earnings are substantially influenced by their education and personality traits. I identify a previously...
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Cognitive Ability, Character Skills, and Learning to Play Equilibrium: A Level-k Analysis
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
ability to that of character skills, and find that both cognition and personality affect behavior and learning. More agreeable …
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Cognitive ability, character skills, and learning to play equilibrium: A level-k analysis
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014
ability to that of character skills, and find that both cognition and personality affect behavior and learning.  More …
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IN SEARCH OF BLACK ENTREPRENEURSHIP: WHY IS THERE A LACK OF ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITY AMONG THE BLACK POPULATION IN SOUTH AFRICA?
PREISENDÖRFER, PETER; BITZ, ANSGAR; BEZUIDENHOUT, FRANS J. - In: Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE) 17 (2012) 01, pp. 1250006-1
Compared to other ethnic groups, the black population of South Africa has a low participation rate in entrepreneurship …, merit further investigation with respect to the question of why there is a lack of black entrepreneurship in South Africa. …
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Personality traits versus work values: Comparing psychological theories on entrepreneurial intention
Espíritu-Olmos, Roberto; Sastre-Castillo, Miguel A. - In: Journal of Business Research 68 (2015) 7, pp. 1595-1598
This study identifies characteristics that positively affect entrepreneurial intention. To do so, the study compares personality traits with work values. Socio-demographic and educational characteristics act as control variables. The sample comprises 1210 public university students. Hierarchical...
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An Assessment of Entrepreneurship Intention Among Sunyani Polytechnic Marketing Students
Samuel, Yeboah Asuamah; Ernest, Kumi; Awuah, Jacob Baffour - In: International Review of Management and Marketing 3 (2013) 1, pp. 37-49
entrepreneurship courses. …
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The Psychology of the Entrepreneur and the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship
Bengtsson, Ola; Sanandaji, Tino; Johannesson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012
Self-employment is often used as synonymous with entrepreneurship. We define entrepreneurship as having the ambition to … gender differences in entrepreneurship. Measured psychological characteristics can account for one third of the large gender … gap in entrepreneurship, but only one tenth of the smaller gender gap in self-employment. Men are one and a half times …
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Entrepreneurship training, risk aversion and other personality traits: Evidence from a random experiment
Fairlie, Robert W.; Holleran, William - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 33 (2012) 2, pp. 366-378
A growing literature examines the relationship between personality traits and entrepreneurship, but no previous studies … explore whether personality or psychological traits predispose individuals to benefit more from entrepreneurship training. To … address selection issues, we use novel data from the largest-ever randomized control experiment providing entrepreneurship …
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Gender Differences in Competitiveness, Risk Tolerance, and other Personality Traits: Do they contribute to the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship?
Boente, Werner; Jarosch, Monika - Universitätsbibliothek Wuppertal, University Library - 2011
In this study we empirically investigate the contribution of personality traits to the gender gap in entrepreneurship … and nascent entrepreneurship among women and men. Moreover, women’s considerably lower level of IEA contributes … significantly to the gender gap in entrepreneurship. The lower level of IEA is mainly due to women’s lower levels of competitiveness …
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