Are some entrepreneurs more overconfident than others

By Daniel P. Forbes. 2005

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Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation

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The Relationship between Slack Resources and the Performance of Entrepreneurial Firms: The Role of Venture Capital and Angel Investors (2013, positive): “Forbes (2005) indeed shows that entrepreneurs whose firms have attracted VC are less overconfident than entrepreneurs whose firms have not.”
The Study of Bias in Entrepreneurship (2017, background): “Such reasoning is rejected by empirical results that younger entrepreneurs were more overconfident than older entrepreneurs (Forbes, 2005) and nascent entrepreneurs were more confident in their skills, knowledge, and experience than serial entrepreneurs (Koellinger et al.”
Is a lack of self‐confidence hindering women entrepreneurs? (2009, background): “Entrepreneurs who founded their own businesses are more overconfident than those who did not ( Forbes, 2005”
The ‘Teachability Dilemma’ of entrepreneurship (2011, background): “More recent research has associated entrepreneurship with team building and leadership (Hindle 2004), overconfidence (Forbes 2005; Shane 2004), susceptibility for pecuniary reward (Shepherd and DeTienne 2005) as well as stress tolerance (Rauch and Frese 2007).”
What Makes Entrepreneurs Happy? Determinants of Satisfaction Among Founders (2012, background): “There is the possibility of self-selection with entrepreneurship attracting a certain type of (overoptimistic) people ( Forbes 2005 ; A ˚ stebro et al. 2007).”
Unpacking the uncertainty construct: Implications for entrepreneurial action (2011, background): “For example, the literature suggests that entrepreneurs maintain high levels of confidence (Busenitz and Barney, 1997; Forbes, 2005) and selfefficacy (Baron andMarkman, 2003; Chen et al., 1998) and that they are driven by a belief in their own ability to “create” in the face of changing and…”
Employee intrapreneurship and work engagement: A latent change score approach (2017, background): “…resilient individuals are less affected by setbacks in a project (Masten, 2001), high efficacious individuals are less insecure when facing difficult tasks (Bandura, 1997), and optimistic individuals are less affected by environments that are overloaded with information (Baron, 1998; Forbes, 2005).”
Personality Traits of Entrepreneurs: A Review of Recent Literature (2018, neutral): “Another explanation is that the identification of ESE traits is especially sensitive to the reverse causality and omitted variable bias concerns described earlier, raising the difficulty in studying it or in interpreting results (Bandura, 1997; Forbes, 2005).”
Human capital and entrepreneurial success: A meta-analytical review (2011, background): “25 Forbes, D. (2005) Published HC investment (task related and nontask related) Size USA Internet firms 1.”
The Cognitive Perspective in Entrepreneurship: An Agenda for Future Research (2011, positive): “But is this the reason why entrepreneurs are more likely to use decision heuristics in the first place? Is this decision preference the manifestation of enduring traits that encourage some individuals to self-select into entrepreneurial pursuits? Could it be instead the result of environmental const”
CEO Gender, Corporate Risk-Taking, and the Efficiency of Capital Allocation (2016, neutral): “The inclusion of these controls is motivated by earlier evidence suggesting that younger CEOs (Forbes, 2005; Kovalchik et al., 2005; Taylor, 1975) and wealthier CEOs (Arrow, 1984; Calvet and Sodini, 2014; Paravisini et al., forthcoming) are more prone to take risks.”