Journal article
Entrepreneurship and team participation: An experimental study
European economic review, Vol.59, pp.126-140
04/01/2013
DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2013.01.003
Abstract
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. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Entrepreneurship and team participation: An experimental study
- Creators
- David J. Cooper - Florida State Univ, Dept Econ, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USAKrista Jabs Saral - Webster University Geneva
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- European economic review, Vol.59, pp.126-140
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2013.01.003
- ISSN
- 0014-2921
- eISSN
- 1873-572X
- Number of pages
- 15
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/01/2013
- Academic Unit
- Economics
- Record Identifier
- 9984420835302771
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