Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship

By Edward P. Lazear. 2004

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A Hubris Theory of Entrepreneurship (2006, background): “Using a sample of founders who graduated from Stanford’s MBA program, Lazear (2004) provides details on a set of actors who have generalist skills and so initiate ventures with quite distinct technical and market requirements from prior ones.”
Demographics and Entrepreneurship (2014, background): “As argued earlier, a worker’s ability to acquire skills depends on his position in the firm, which depends on his rank, defined as the proportion 14 This transitory and permanent ability structure was used in Lazear (2004b).”
The Economics of Entrepreneurship: What We Know and What We Don't (2005, background): “An important recent theoretical contribution by Lazear [97], [98] suggests that entrepreneurial selection and performance are guided by the mix or balance of skills held by individuals, rather than by specialized expertise.”
Founders’ human capital and the performance of UK new technology based firms (2012, background): “Lazear (2004, 2005) provided a theoretical argument and also supporting empirical evidence that individuals who become entrepreneurs are more likely to be generalists in the sense that they have knowledge (in terms of education or/and experience) in two or more disciplines.”
Social influence in career choice: Evidence from a randomized field experiment on entrepreneurial mentorship (2017, background): “…can be grouped into demographic factors (Roberts, 1991; Dunn and HoltzEakin, 2000), training and experience effects (Shane and Khurana, 2003; Lazear, 2004; Eesley et al., 2016), cognitive differences (Mitchell et al., 2000; Simon et al., 2000), financial and opportunity cost calculations…”
Self-employment and entrepreneurship in urban and rural labour markets ☆ (2014, background): “Sanandaji (2010) uses cross-country data to document that the correlation between the incidence of self-employment and billionaires who became rich by setting up their own business (as listed in Forbes Magazine) is negative and significant.”
Artificial intelligence and big data in entrepreneurship: a new era has begun (2019, background): “Indeed, “prototypical” entrepreneurship is often described as some sort of generalist work (Lazear 2004; Stuetzer et al. 2013) that involves human heuristics (Busenitz and Barney 1997), but it can of course also be linked to the more specialized development of novel ideas and artifacts (e.g., in…”
Exploring entrepreneurial skills and competencies in farm tourism (2012, methodology): “remain competitive (McElwee, 2006); as Smit (2004) argues, entrepreneurship is increasingly becoming the most important aspect of modern farming.”
The Context of Entrepreneurial Judgment: Organizations, Markets, and Institutions (2019, neutral): “Within economics, research on entrepreneurship as occupational choice has been thriving for some time (Evans and Jovanovic, 1989; Lazear, 2004; Parker, 2004).”
Recent developments in the economics of entrepreneurship (2008, background): “Lazear (2004, 2005) and Wagner (2003), for example, have suggested that entrepreneurs must be jacks-of-all-trades with the ability to perform many tasks without necessarily excelling at any of them.”
Shaped by Booms and Busts: How the Economy Impacts CEO Careers and Management Styles (2017, neutral): “1 Similarly, a large literature in management science has looked at the role of CEOs (e.g., Kotter 1982; Hambrick and Mason 1984; Fligstein 1990; Khurana 2002; Lazear 2004).”