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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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Competitiveness of entrepreneurs and salaried workers

Balafoutas, Loukas; Batsaikhan, Mongoljin; Sutter, Matthias - 2021 - This version: 4 March 2021

We measure the willingness to compete of entrepreneurs and salaried workers in an experiment. We let participants choose between a piece-rate and a tournament scheme either in private or in public. We find that in the private condition entrepreneurs are less competitive than salaried workers,...

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The Origins and Extent of Entrepreneurial Action-Orientedness : An Experimental Study

Barirani, Ahmad - 2017

We test the hypothesis, based on popular and theoretical perspectives, that entrepreneurs are more action-oriented than other occupational groups. We compare their playing strategies in an optimal stopping game using a randomized online experiment among 100s of entrepreneurs, managers and...

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The Origins and Extent of Entrepreneurial Action-Orientedness : An Experimental Study

Barirani, Ahmad - 2017

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The Effect of Early Entrepreneurship Education : Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Rosendahl Huber, Laura; Sloof, Randolph; van Praag, Mirjam - 2015

of primary school. We focus on pupils’ development of entrepreneurship knowledge and a set of non-cognitive skills …The aim of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of early entrepreneurship education. To this end, we conduct a … randomized field experiment to evaluate a leading entrepreneurship education program that is taught worldwide in the final grade …

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Entrepreneurship and Team Participation : An Experimental Study

Cooper, David J.; Saral, Krista J. - 2010

Entrepreneurs are surprisingly unlikely to have partners. In spite of the obvious advantages to forming partnerships, only a small minority of entrepreneurs (less than 10%, excluding family businesses) have partners. A number of possible explanations exist for this puzzling phenomenon, including...

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