Entrepreneurs under Uncertainty: An Economic Experiment

Hakan Holm, Sonja Opper () and Victor Nee ()
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Sonja Opper: Department of Economics, Lund University, Postal: Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management, Lund University, Box 7082, S-220 07 Lund, Sweden, http://www.nek.lu.se/en/contact
Victor Nee: Cornell University

No 2012:4, Working Papers from Lund University, Department of Economics

Abstract: This study reports findings from the first large scale experiment investigating whether entrepreneurs differ from other people in their willingness to expose themselves to various forms of uncertainty in decision tasks. A stratified random sample of 700 CEOs from the Yangzi delta region in China is compared to 200 control group members. Our findings suggest that entrepreneurs’ seem to be more willing to accept some forms of strategic uncertainty related to multilateral competition and trust. In contrast, entrepreneurs do not seem to differ from ordinary people when it comes to non-strategic forms of uncertainty, such as risk and ambiguity

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Risk; Ambiguity; Willingness to Compete; Trust (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 D21 L21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 76 pages
Date: 2012-01-30
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Published as Holm, Håkan J., Sonja Opper and Victor Nee, 'Entrepreneurs under Uncertainty: An Economic Experiment' in Management Science, 2013, pages 1671-1687.

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