Entrepreneurs, Jacks of all trades or Hobos?

By Tom Åstebro, Peter Thompson. 2011

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

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Citations in the corpus

Balanced skills among nascent entrepreneurs (2013, methodology): “A similar argument has been brought forward by Åstebro and Thompson (2011). They show that a more balanced skill set and entrepreneurial entry is related to several personality traits that were subsumed under the label ‘‘taste for variety’’.”
Information-Sharing in Academia and the Industry: A Comparative Study (2011, background): “influenced by the socialization and directed attention experienced in a family (Astebro and Thompson 2007).”
The Small Firm Effect and the Entrepreneurial Spawning of Scientists and Engineers (2010, background): “15 This finding is also consistent with Astebro and Thompson’s (2009) argument that an individual who prefers a diversity of tasks”
Social influence in career choice: Evidence from a randomized field experiment on entrepreneurial mentorship (2017, background): “Other work emphasizes the breadth of skills necessary for entrepreneurship in contrast to specialization (Eesley et al., 2014; Lazear, 2004; Åstebro and Thompson, 2011).”
Seeking the Roots of Entrepreneurship: Insights from Behavioral Economics (2014, unknown): “Åstebro and Thompson (2011) find the size of the nonpecuniary benefits of having a large variety of skills in entrepreneurship is on the order of 16 to 22 percent of annual household income.”
Is entrepreneurship necessarily good? Microeconomic evidence from developed and developing countries (2013, background): “If such is the case, no causal relationship would be detectable between the spread of knowledge across different fields and the choice to become an entrepreneur (Åstebro, 2005; Silva, 2007; Åstebro and Thompson, 2011).”