Are entrepreneurs influenced by risk attitude, regulatory focus or both? An experiment on entrepreneurs' time allocation

Journal of Business Venturing

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 456-476

  Burmeister Lamp, Katrin ^a   Lévesque, Moren ^b   Schade, Christian ^c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurship; Experiments; Regulatory focus theory; Time allocation decisions; Utility theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858342604     PISSN: 08839026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2011.12.001     Document Type: Article

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