"I Think I Can, I Think I Can": Overconfidence and Entrepreneurial Behavior

By Philipp Koellinger, Maria Minniti, C. Schade. 2007

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Subfields: Accounting, Business and International Management, Management of Technology and Innovation

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The Importance of Being Emotional : How do Emotions Affect Entrepreneurial Opportunity Evaluation and Exploitation? (2010, background): “Present entrepreneurship literature and behavioral economics in general (e.g., Koellinger et al., 2007; Lee et al. 2005; Shepherd, 2004; Sternberg et al., 2006) provide clear evidence that emotion has a systematic influence on entrepreneurship.”
Slipping the surly bonds: The value of autonomy in self-employment (2012, background): “…simultaneously places great weight on entrepreneurial overcon - 1Hundley (2001), however, found that the self-employed job satisfaction advantage is relatively small or nonexistent among managers and members of established professions occupations where organizational workers have relatively…”
Improving metacognition in the classroom through instruction, training, and feedback (2016, background): “2010), even those who have been practicing for up to 40 years! The pervasiveness of overconfidence is observed in numerous situations including entrepreneurs starting new businesses (Koellinger et al. 2007), drivers’ competency estimates (Delhomme 1991), and students’ self-evaluations of their perfo”
The impact of role models on entrepreneurial intentions and behavior: a review of the literature (2020, background): “2013) and that they are one of the most consequential causes of entrepreneurial behavior (Arenius and Minniti 2005; Koellinger et al. 2007).”
The Influence of Gender on Entrepreneurial Intention: The Mediating Role of Perceptual Factors (2016, background): “Moreover, the literature has also shown that perceptual actors could play a crucial role in explaining the differnces in the entrepreneurial behavior of men and women Koellinger et al., 2007).”
Institutional factors, opportunity entrepreneurship and economic growth: Panel data evidence (2016, background): “Koellinger et al. (2007) assess the response of entrepreneurial activity in some developed and developing countries to the confidence in one’s skills.”
Entrepreneurship and role models (2012, background): “…that networks (Kim and Aldrich, 2005; Klyver et al. 2007) and peer groups (Djankov et al. 2006; Falck et al. 2010; Gianetti and Simonov, 2009; Koellinger et al. 2007; Nanda and Sorensen, 2009; Stuart and Ding, 2006) influence the decision to become an entrepreneur while it is assumed that…”