Entrepreneurial success and failure: Confidence and fallible judgment

Organization Science

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1733-1747

  Hogarth, Robin M ^a   Karelaia, Natalia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b INSEAD   (France)

Author keywords

Bounded rationality; Entrepreneurship; Excess entry; Fallible judgment; Overconfidence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872420124     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1110.0702     Document Type: Article

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