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Based on a trait-oriented approach, Big Five personality traits have been repeatedly shown to affect entrepreneurial … entrepreneurship. Moreover, we compare prototyping with entrepreneurial profiling, another person-oriented approach to the Big Five …, which assumes that low levels of agreeableness and high levels of all other traits describe a particular entrepreneurship …
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Personality is a key driver of self-employment decisions. For this reason, the personality traits of entrepreneurs or … entrepreneur - as a classic form of strategic entrepreneurship. Based on a large, representative German household panel data set …, we show that the entrepreneurial type mediates the effect of broad (Big Five) and narrow personality traits (locus of …
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closer look at this issue by examining the personality characteristics of business owners. Our results confirm that an … individual's personality affects the likelihood of self-employment, but certain traits have a different effect in the case of … human personality. Thus, personality traits can influence self-employment decisions differently, depending on the sector or …
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We analyse the decision to become an entrepreneur by either taking over an established business or starting a new venture from scratch. A model is developed which predicts how several individual- and firm-specific characteristics influence entrepreneurs' entry mode. The new venture creation mode...
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Parker and Van Praag (2009) showed, based on theory, that the group status of the profession ‘entrepreneurship’ shapes … consequences of the group status of a profession, entrepreneurship in particular. If the group status of entrepreneurship is … be expected and respect. Furthermore, our results imply that entrepreneurship is associated with hard work, high incomes …
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Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial) income and of education. Using instrumental...
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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...
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We extend Lazear's theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical …, but also commercial value. Our findings support the notion that entrepreneurship can be learned. …
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I present a theory on the relationship between educational choice and entrepreneurship in a labour market with … entrepreneurship rates in the population. …
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We investigate the extent to which complementarities between technical and business skills of founders and employees matter for the generation of market novelties by new ventures. Using data about German start-ups, we find that there are no complementarities between technical and business skills...
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