If you are so smart, why aren't you an Entrepreneur?

By Joop Hartog, M. van Praag, J. van der Sluis. 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, Sociology and Political Science

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Smart and Illicit: Who Becomes an Entrepreneur and Do They Earn More? (2017, unknown): “Researchers examine the connection between the propensity for an individual to become self-employed and self-esteem, optimism, and a taste for novelty, as in Horvath and Zuckerman (1993), Zuckerman (1994), Nicolaou et al. (2008), and Hartog, Praag, and Sluis (2010).”
Entrepreneurship training, risk aversion and other personality traits: Evidence from a random experiment (2012, unknown): “These results contribute to the growing interest in the importance of risk tolerance for entrepreneurship (Caliendo et al., 2009, 2010a, 2010b; Fairlie, 2002; Hartog et al., 2010; Puri & Robinson, 2009; Rauch & Frese, 2007; van Praag & Cramer, 2001).”
Entrepreneurship and role models (2012, unknown): “…knowledge and experience entrepreneurs with higher levels of human capital (believe they) have the ability to start their own business and make it successful (Gimeno et al., 1997; Hamilton, 2000; Hartog et al., 2010; Parker and Van Praag, 2006; Stuart and Abetti, 1990; Van Praag et al., 2009).”
Self-Compassion When Coping With Venture Obstacles: Loving-Kindness Meditation and Entrepreneurial Fear of Failure (2019, background): “Because of their busy lives and long working hours compared to employees (Hartog et al., 2010), LKM provides a practical and accessible intervention for entrepreneurs, allowing our study to establish a muchneeded link between theory and practice (Wiklund et al.”
Do serial entrepreneurs run successively better-performing businesses? (2013, background): “Second, many determinants of performance, such as ability (Hartog et al., 2010) and education (Iversen et al., 2010) are time-invariant and so are differenced away in the estimation of Eq.”
Knowledge context and entrepreneurial intentions among students (2012, unknown): “Hartog et al. (2010), for instance, show that the possession of certain cognitive abilities is related to entrepreneurial career choice and performance.”
Personality characteristics and the decisions to become and stay self-employed (2013, unknown): “2 Another strand of literature focuses on the influence of cognitive skills on entrepreneurial decisions (see, e.g., Baron 2004; Hartog et al. 2010; or Haynie et al. 2012).”
Balanced skills among nascent entrepreneurs (2013, methodology): “In general, the link between entrepreneurial performance and a balanced skill set has not been thoroughly investigated yet (see for notable exceptions Oberschachtsiek, in press; Åstebro and Thompson 2011; Hartog et al. 2010), and we could identify only one empirical study investigating performance e”