Koudstaal, Martin; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2015
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 …