Does entrepreneur dispositional optimism bias affect small firms' technical efficiency

Ben Fatma Elhem, Ezzeddine Ben Mohamed and Sami Boudabbous

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 2015, vol. 24, issue 3, 302-321

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of entrepreneurs' dispositional optimism on small business firm efficiency in the Tunisian context. Using a stochastic frontier analysis technique adjusted to an entrepreneur dispositional optimism bias, we estimate the efficiency score and then we demonstrate that the inefficiency term is explained by entrepreneur dispositional optimism. Our data consists of 67 small firms between 2008 and 2012. Our results highlight that other entrepreneurial characteristics and social network can explain technical efficiency.

Keywords: entrepreneurs; dispositional optimism; technical efficiency; small firms; entrepreneurship; small business; technical efficiency; entrepreneurial characteristics; social networks; Tunisia. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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