The tendency to underestimate others’ relative performance compared to one’s own is widespread among individuals in all work environments. We examine the relationship between, and the driving forces behind, individual overconfidence and voluntary cooperation in team production. Our...

Previous literature highlights employees’ creativity as an important means to foster innovation and competitive advantage in companies. Transformational leadership is a leadership approach aiming at stimulating and encouraging the creative performance of employees. However, contradictory...

Why are some individuals more likely to become owners of small businesses than others? We classify industries using measures of entry barriers and proceed to investigate how determinants of entry vary in high- as opposed to low-barrier fields. Claims that neither financial-capital constraints...

This paper uses a pseudo-panel approach at an age-based cohort level to investigate the extent to which social capital accounts for differences in entrepreneurial activities. The findings suggest that trust measured by trust either in strangers or in public institutions facilitates...

Emotional Intelligence is very important at workplace. Present study was conducted to investigate the “gender difference in Emotional Intelligence in Government and Non- Government employees of Hyderabad”. The sample is composed of 100 respondents (i.e. 50 Government and 50 Non-Government...

This paper is an evaluation of the employment role of Cart Pushing in Metropolitan Lagos and how it sustains the operators and by extension family members. Currently, Lagos accommodates 65% of industries in Nigeria, which account for the attraction of people from every part of Nigeria in search...