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How to educate entrepreneurs?
Graevenitz, Georg von; Weber, Richard - 2011 - rev.
Entrepreneurship education has two purposes: To improve students' entrepreneurial skills and to provide impetus to … those suited to entrepreneurship while discouraging the rest. While entrepreneurship education helps students to make a … vocational decision its effects may conflict for those not suited to entrepreneurship. This study shows that vocational and the …
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Born entrepreneur? : adolescents’ personality characteristics and self-employment in adulthood
Viinikainen, Jutta; Heineck, Guido; Böckerman, Petri; … - 2016
also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441301
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Born entrepreneur? : adolescents' personality characteristics and self-employment in adulthood
Viinikainen, Jutta; Heineck, Guido; Böckerman, Petri; … - 2016
also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454428
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Everybody's doing it : on the emergence and persistence of bad social norms
Smerdon, David; Offerman, Theo; Genîzî, Ûrî - 2016
Social norms permeate society across a wide range of issues and are important to understanding how societies function. In this paper we concentrate on 'bad' social norms - those that are inefficient or even damaging to a group. This paper explains how bad social norms evolve and persist; our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446896
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Why and how identity should influence utility
Wichardt, Philipp C. - 2007 - This Version: January 11, 2007
This paper provides an argument for the advantage of a preference for identity-consistent behaviour from an evolutionary point of view. Within a stylised model of social interaction, we show that the development of cooperative social norms is greatly facilitated if the agents of the society...
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Personal norms - and not only social norms - shape economic behavior
Bašić, Zvonimir; Verrina, Eugenio - 2020 - Revised December 2020
While social norms have received great attention within economics, little is known about the role of personal norms. We propose a simple utility framework - which assumes that people care about monetary payoff, social norms, and personal norms - and design a novel two-part experiment to...
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Biased Memory and Perceptions of Self-Control
Sial, Afras Y.; Sydnor, Justin R.; Taubinsky, Dmitry - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Using data from a field experiment on exercise, we analyze the relationship between imperfect memory and people's awareness of their limited self-control. We find that people overestimate past gym attendance, and that larger overestimation of past attendance is associated with (i) more...
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Are entrepreneurs more optimistic and overconfident than managers and employees?
Koudstaal, Martin; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2015
Empirical evidence supports the conventional wisdom that entrepreneurs are more optimistic and overconfident than others. However, the same holds true for top managers. In this lab-in-the-field experiment we directly compare the scores of entrepreneurs, managers and employees on a comprehensive...
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Why are optimistic entrepreneurs successful? : An application of the regulatory focus theory
Aidis, Ruta; Mickiewicz, Tomasz; Sauka, Arnis - 2008
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