Exploiting opportunities at all cost? Entrepreneurial intent and externalities

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 379-393

  Urbig, Diemo ^a,b,c   Weitzel, Utz ^a,b   Rosenkranz, Stephanie ^d   Witteloostuijn, Arjen van ^c,d,e  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN HISTORY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Altruism; Entrepreneurial intent; Entrepreneurship; Externalities; Fairness; Laboratory experiment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856105529     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2011.03.003     Document Type: Article

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