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 …

We prove a fundamental attribution error connecting rule-breaking behavior to entrepreneurs. We do so in the research … context of the US, where we recently sampled from medium-sized venture entrepreneurs and their corporate executive peers (as … entrepreneurship with religiosity and ethical decision-making. …