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Ethnic diversity and team performance: A field experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander M.; van Praag, Mirjam - 2012
One of the most salient and relevant dimensions of team heterogeneity is ethnicity. We measure the causal impact of ethnic diversity on the performance of business teams using a randomized field experiment. We follow 550 students who set up 45 real companies as part of their curriculum in an...
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Ethnic diversity and team performance : a field experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander; Praag, Mirjam van - 2012
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Ethnic diversity and team performance : a field experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander M.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2012
. -- ethnic diversity ; team performance ; field experiment ; entrepreneurship ; (mutual) learning …
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Less Information, More Comparison, and Better Performance : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Eyring, Henry; Ferguson, Patrick J.; Koppers, Sebastian - 2021
We use a field experiment in professional sports to compare effects of providing absolute, relative, or both absolute and relative measures in performance reports for employees. Although studies have documented that the provision of these types of measures can benefit performance, theory from...
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Entrepreneurship and Public Policy
Henrekson, Magnus; Stenkula, Mikael - 2009
Public policy is currently shifting from SME policy towards entrepreneurship policy, which supports entrepreneurship … public policy affects the prevalence and performance of both productive entrepreneurship and so-called high …-impact entrepreneurship in turn. Although varying contexts and economic systems make prescribing a general panacea impossible, a number of …
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Entrepreneurship and public policy
Henrekson, Magnus; Stenkula, Mikael - 2009
Public policy is currently shifting from SME policy towards entrepreneurship policy, which supports entrepreneurship … public policy affects the prevalence and performance of both productive entrepreneurship and so-called high …-impact entrepreneurship in turn. Although varying contexts and economic systems make prescribing a general panacea impossible, a number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003867872
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The Imprinting of Founders’ Human Capital on Entrepreneurial Venture Growth : Evidence from New Technology-Based Firms
Grilli, Luca - 2016
This paper tests the presence of an ‘entrepreneurial imprinting effect' of founders' human capital on entrepreneurial ventures' sales growth performance. More specifically, we disentangle the effect of the stock of human capital possessed at foundation from the potential injections and losses...
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Divergent thinking and post-launch entrepreneurial outcomes : non-linearities and the moderating role of experience
Caliendo, Marco; Rodríguez, Daniel - 2023
recognition of new business opportunities. Drawing upon the cumulative process model of creativity in entrepreneurship, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014339701
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High-growth entrepreneurship
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Kim, Mee Jung; Lee, … - 2018
Analyzing data on all U.S. employers in a cohort of entering firms, we document a highly skewed size distribution, such that the largest 5% account for over half of cohort employment at firm birth and more than two-thirds at firm age 7. Little of the size variation is accounted for by industry...
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Entrepreneurial choices of initial human capital endowments and new venture success
Rocha, Vera; Praag, Mirjam van; Folta, Timothy B.; … - 2016
The founder (team)ś human capital is a vital determinant of future firm performance. This is a stylized fact. Less is known about the effect of the human capital of the initial workforce hired by the founder(s). We study the performance consequences of a founderś choice of the initial...
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