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Risk, uncertainty and entrepreneurship : evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment
Koudstaal, Martin; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2014
Theory predicts that entrepreneurs have distinct attitudes towards risk and uncertainty, but empirical evidence is mixed. To better understand the unique behavioral characteristics of entrepreneurs and the causes of these mixed results, we perform a large "ab-in-the-field" experiment comparing...
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The effects of entrepreneurship education
Weber, Richard; Graevenitz, Georg von; Harhoff, Dietmar - 2009
Entrepreneurship education ranks highly on policy agendas in Europe and the US, but little research is available to … assess its impacts. In this context it is of primary importance to understand whether entrepreneurship education raises … intentions to be entrepreneurial generally or whether it helps students determine how well suited they are for entrepreneurship …
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The impact of gender diversity on the performance of business teams : evidence from a field experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Praag, Mirjam van - 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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Intuitive versus contemplative : do entrepreneurs differ in their decision-making style from managers and employees?
Koudstaal, Martin; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2017
We examine in a large survey (n = 1,928) how contemplative entrepreneurs, managers and employees are in their decision making styles. Besides two well-known subjective measures taken from psychology, we also build on Rubinstein (2016) by including two objective measures derived from response...
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Evaluating the Impact of Prior Experience in Entrepreneurial Intention
Miralles, Francesc - 2018
individuals of working-age that completed a questionnaire based on Liñan & Chen's, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 593 …
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A lab test on the decision not to decide
Schade, Christian D.; Snir, Avichai - In: Business research 13 (2020) 3, pp. 1253-1291
Decisions are often postponed even when future profits are not expected to compensate for the losses. This is especially relevant for financial and entrepreneurial disinvestment choices, as investors often have a disposition to hold on to losing assets for too long. We use an experiment with...
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Do recruiters select workers with different personality traits for different tasks? : a discrete choice experiment
Wehner, Caroline; Grip, Andries de; Pfeifer, Harald - 2020
This paper explores whether firms recruit workers with different personality traits for different tasks. For our analysis, we used data from a discrete choice experiment conducted among recruiters of 634 firms in Germany. Recruiters were asked to choose between job applicants who differed in...
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The individual and joint performance of economic preferences, personality, and self-control in predicting criminal behavior
Friehe, Tim; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah - 2014
We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality traits from psychology (Big Five and locus of control), and a self-control scale from...
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Information acquisition and decisions under risk and ambiguity
Bergheim, Ralf - 2014
reduzieren. Die Studie untersucht, wie Risikoaversion, die Einstellung zu Ambiguität und verschiedene Persönlichkeitsmerkmale … individuelle Risikoaversion und die Einstellung zu Ambiguität einen signifikanten Einfluss auf die Informationsnachfrage haben …
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Myopic loss aversion, personality, and gender
Durand, Robert B.; Fung, Lucia; Limkriangkrai, Manapon - In: The journal of behavioral finance : a publication of … 20 (2019) 3, pp. 339-353
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