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What makes the entrepreneurial personality is the key question we seek to answer in thespecial issue of the Journal of … Economic Psychology on “Personality and Entrepreneurship”.The contributions are clustered around questions regarding the … linkage between personality,socio-economic factors and entrepreneurial development. Results further explain the genderpuzzle …
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Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in bothpositively and negatively …, andbuyers, as well as needing to trust others and reciprocate with their network. We base ouranalysis on the German Socio …) thewillingness to trust other people influences the probability of starting a business; ii) trust,positive reciprocity, and negative …
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How can a principal (an agent) ensure that an agent (a principal) will work (pay up), ifpayment (work) precedes work (payment)? When a banknote is torn in two, each part is byitself worthless. A principal can pre-commit to payment-on-delivery, by tearing a banknoteand giving the agent the first...
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The influence of risk aversion on the decision to become self-employed is a much discussedtopic in the entrepreneurial literature. Conventional wisdom asserts that the role model of anentrepreneur requires to make risky decisions in uncertain environments and hence thatmore risk-averse...
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