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ToolsCooper, D.J. and Saral, K.J. (2013) Entrepreneurship and team participation:An experimental study. European Economic Review, 59. pp. 126-140. ISSN 0014-2921
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Entrepreneurs are surprisingly unlikely to have partners. One possible explanation for this is that entrepreneurs have distinctive preferences for working alone rather than in teams. However, a number of alternative explanations exist, such as an inability to locate suitable partners or low profitability from having a partner. Utilizing a diverse subject population with a high proportion of active entrepreneurs, we use a team production experiment to directly examine whether entrepreneurs prefer to work alone or in a team. The experiment also measures an important determinant of entrepreneurs' performances within teams, and their relative tendency to free-ride. The data indicate that entrepreneurs, while no more likely to free-ride on their teammates, are substantially more interested in working alone than similar non-entrepreneurs.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | artefactual field experiment,entrepreneurship,teams |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Economics |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Behavioural Economics |
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| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Nov 2013 14:30 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Apr 2023 23:42 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/44403 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2013.01.003 |
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