Workplace Peers and Entrepreneurship

By Ramana Nanda, Jesper B. Sørensen. Management Sciences, 2010

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Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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What makes student entrepreneurs? On the relevance (and irrelevance) of the university and the regional context for student start-ups (2016, background): “This finding is similar to results on such peer-effects in other contexts (Bercovitz & Feldman, 2008; Falck et al., 2012; Nanda & Sørensen, 2010; Stuart & Ding, 2006).”
Entrepreneurship and role models (2012, background): “…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 networks and peer groups…”
Entrepreneurial innovation: The importance of context (2014, background): “Organizational context captures the influences of, for example, organizational culture, practices, experience, knowledge and skill effects (Nanda and Sorensen, 2010).”
Peer Effects in Program Participation (2014, unknown): “It also allows individual 2’s choice to depend on his own characteristics, the characteristics of individual 2, and common group-specific variables.”
Informal institutions and international entrepreneurship (2017, background): “Individuals in contexts with strong performance orientation are, therefore more likely to emulate the performance of their peers by internationalizing early (Nanda & Sorensen, 2010).”
Institutions and Venture Capital (2013, background): “Pagés-Serra and Micco (2008) showed that employment protection reduces the size of sectors characterized by high intrinsic labor volatility, and Cuñat and Melitz (2007) showed that countries with less flexible labor market policies tend to specialize (in terms of international trade) in sectors with”
In good company: : The influence of peers on industry engagement by academic scientists (2012, background): “The influence of peers on individual behaviour has been documented in many different empirical settings, including neighbourhoods (Dietz, 2002), education (Coleman, 1966; Jackson and Bruegmann, 2009), movie sales (Moretti, 2011), health plan choices (Sorensen, 2006), and workplace contexts (Lazega, ”
Identity and entrepreneurship: do school peers shape entrepreneurial intentions? (2010, background): “For instance, based on a register-based longitudinal Danish data set, Nanda and Sorensen (2010) study peer effects in the workplace and show that having coworkers who have had prior entrepreneurial experiences increases the likelihood of becoming an entrepreneur.”
Consequences of cultural practices for entrepreneurial behaviors (2013, unknown): “Individuals in societies with strong performance orientation practices are more likely to monitor the Journal of International Business Studies performance of their peers, strengthening their motivation to seek performance (Nanda & Sørensen, 2010).”