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

Journal of Business Venturing - Tập 27 Số 4 - Trang 456-476 - 2012
Katrin Burmeister–Lamp1, Moren Lévesque2, Christian Schade3
1Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, 3062 PA, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2Schulich School of Business, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3
3Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies and Innovation Management, School of Business and Economics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin, Germany

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