This study provides first empirical results on entrepreneurs’ negotiation behavior. In a series of negotiation tasks, we compare persuasive behaviors and negotiation outcomes of entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs. Our results show that entrepreneurs make extensive use of emotions and...

Research summary: Entrepreneurial start-ups suffer high rates of business failure. Previousresearch on entrepreneurial failure has focused on two kinds of explanations: statisticaland psychological. Statistical explanations attribute excess entry to random errors made byboundedly rational...

RESEARCH SUMMARY Entrepreneurial start-ups suffer high rates of business failure. Previous research on entrepreneurial failure has focused on two kinds of explanations: statistical and psychological. Statistical explanations attribute excess entry to random errors made by boundedly-rational...

How does group size influence behavior in online trust dilemmas? We investigate cooperation in groups of 4 to 100 players. While overall levels of cooperation are stable across group sizes, we find significant gender differences: women increase cooperation with group size and cooperate...