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Ability dispersion and team performance
Hoogendoorn, Sander; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2014
What is the effect of dispersed levels of cognitive ability of members of a (business) team on their teamś performance? This paper reports the results of a field experiment in which 573 students in 49 teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. We ensured exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010348405
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The origins and extent of entrepreneurial action-orientedness : an experimental study
Barirani, Ahmad; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2017
We test the hypothesis, based on popular and theoretical perspectives, that entrepreneurs are more action-oriented than … experiment among 100s of entrepreneurs, managers and employees. Our experimental results show that entrepreneurs are indeed more … curiosity. Our empirical test results show that (i) entrepreneurs score indeed higher, on average, than managers and employees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011583687
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The origins and extent of entrepreneurial action-orientedness : an experimental study
Barirani, Ahmad; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2017
We test the hypothesis, based on popular and theoretical perspectives, that entrepreneurs are more action-oriented than … experiment among 100s of entrepreneurs, managers and employees. Our experimental results show that entrepreneurs are indeed more … curiosity. Our empirical test results show that (i) entrepreneurs score indeed higher, on average, than managers and employees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607388
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Ability dispersion and team performance : a field experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander M.; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2012
This paper studies the impact of diversity in cognitive ability among members of a team on their performance. We conduct a large field experiment in which teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. Exogenous variation in - otherwise random - team composition is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009675518
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011386454
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The effect of early entrepreneurship education : evidence from a randomized field experiment
Rosendahl Huber, Laura; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2012
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 of primary school. We focus on pupils' development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009536407
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Ability or Finances as Constraints to Entrepreneurship? Evidence from Survival Rates in a Natural Experiment
Andersen, Steffen - 2011
entrepreneurs, who start a business after receiving windfall wealth. We compare the performance of these ventures to that of a … caused by market failure. We find that constrained entrepreneurs' ventures have significantly lower survival rates and are … less profitable than are those of unconstrained entrepreneurs. In addition, we show that windfalls have no long-term effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124186
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Ability dispersion and team performance : a field experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010190989
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The effect of early entrepreneurship education : evidence from a randomized field experiment
Rosendahl Huber, Laura; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010191014
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Learning to let go : A field experiment on benchmarking and entrepreneur exit
Hou, Yun; Png, Ivan P. L. - 2022
Entrepreneurs are reluctant to exit. How does information about peers, specifically, benchmarking, affect exit? To …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014085179