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Identity and commitment : Sen's conception of the individual
Davis, John Bryan - 2004
with recent standard economics' explanation of social identity in terms of conformity. Sen's concept of commitment is …This paper develops a conception of personal identity for Amartya Sen's capability framework that emphasizes his self …-scrutinizing aspect of the self and related concept of commitment, and compares this conception to the co1lective intentionality-based one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335215
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Searching for a personal identity capability in narratives of commitment in fiction literature
Lacour, Pierre - In: Forum for social economics 50 (2021) 1, pp. 83-107
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012423356
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Ability matching and survival of start-ups
Müller, Bettina - 2009
In this paper, I analyse how the survival of new firms is affected by the average ability level in the founding team, the team size, team members' homogeneity with respect to ability, and team members' heterogeneity with respect to education. As a theoretical basis, I apply the O-ring theory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298851
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How do judgmental overconfidence and overoptimism shape innovative activity?
Herz, Holger; Schunk, Daniel; Zehnder, Christian - 2013
Recent field evidence suggests a positive link between overconfidence and innovative activities. In this paper we argue that the connection between overconfidence and innovation is more complex than the previous literature suggests. In particular, we show theoretically and experimentally that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316868
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How do judgmental overconfidence and overoptimism shape innovative activity?
Herz, Holger; Schunk, Daniel; Zehnder, Christian - 2013
Recent field evidence suggests a positive link between overconfidence and innovative activities. In this paper we argue that the connection between overconfidence and innovation is more complex than the previous literature suggests. In particular, we show theoretically and experimentally that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291552
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Ability matching and survival of start-ups
Müller, Bettina - 2009
In this paper, I analyse how the survival of new firms is affected by the average ability level in the founding team, the team size, team members' homogeneity with respect to ability, and team members' heterogeneity with respect to education. As a theoretical basis, I apply the O-ring theory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003871339
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Bread and bullets
Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016
Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422534
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Firm performance : the role of CEOs' emotional and cognitive characteristics
Katsaros, Kleanthis K.; Tsirikas, Athanasios N.; … - In: International journal of business and economic sciences … 8 (2015) 1, pp. 51-81
Purpose - The paper examines the relationships between CEOs' personal traits, emotions, attitudes and tolerance of ambiguity; and subsequently, the influence of CEOs' ambiguity tolerance in firms' performance. Design/methodology/approach - Survey data were collected from 256 ICT firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376839
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Germany's next top manager : does personality explain the gender career gap?
Jebsen, Simon; Holst, Elke; Tobsch, Verena - In: Management revue : socio-economic studies 22 (2011) 3, pp. 240-273
Many studies have focused on the influence of human capital and other "objective" factors on career achievement. In our study, we go a step further by also looking at the impact of self-reported personality traits on differences in career chances. For the first time - to our knowledge - we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009770026
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How do judgmental overconfidence and overoptimism shape innovative activity?
Herz, Holger; Schunk, Daniel; Zehnder, Christian - 2013
Recent field evidence suggests a positive link between overconfidence and innovative activities. In this paper we argue that the connection between overconfidence and innovation is more complex than the previous literature suggests. In particular, we show theoretically and experimentally that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009747334