Empirical evidence supports the conventional wisdom that entrepreneurs are more optimistic and overconfident than … entrepreneurs, managers and employees on a comprehensive set of measures of optimism and overconfidence (n = 2,058). The results … show that on average entrepreneurs are more optimistic than others in their dispositional optimism and attributional style …

intentions. However, empirical research aimed at establishing the importance of role models for (nascent) entrepreneurs is scarce … completed by a representative sample of 292 entrepreneurs in three major Dutch cities - entrepreneurs who have recently started …

We examine in a large survey (n = 1,928) how contemplative entrepreneurs, managers and employees are in their decision … conventional wisdom, we find that entrepreneurs have a stronger subjective Faith in Intuition than others. Their actual action … choices are partly in line with this: entrepreneurs make indeed more intuitive choices than managers, but are equally …

Empirical evidence supports the conventional wisdom that entrepreneurs are more optimistic and overconfident than … entrepreneurs, managers and employees on a comprehensive set of measures of optimism and overconfidence (n = 2,058). The results … show that on average entrepreneurs are more optimistic than others in their dispositional optimism and attributional style …

Whether policy support should be designed differently for women entrepreneurs is a particularly relevant question. To … answer this, and to inform the design of policies to provide appropriate support for women entrepreneurs, the paper compares … of women. Based on a survey of 50 men and 50 women entrepreneurs in the regions of Sfax, Sousse and Tunis, our results …

likely to become entrepreneurs. By not having taken this possible linkage into account, previous research has underestimated …