Arbeitspapier
Competitiveness of entrepreneurs and salaried workers
We measure the willingness to compete of entrepreneurs and salaried workers in an experiment. We let participants choose between a piece-rate and a tournament scheme either in private or in public. We find that in the private condition entrepreneurs are less competitive than salaried workers, but that in the public condition this ordering is reversed. Data from a follow-up survey suggest that social image concerns of entrepreneurs and perceived norms can explain why entrepreneurs are more competitive when decisions are publicly observable. Our survey also reveals that more competitive entrepreneurs earn higher profits in their businesses.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Discussion Papers of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods ; No. 2021/7
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Individual
Field Experiments
Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles
Entrepreneurship
- Thema
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Competitiveness
Entrepreneurs
Salaried Workers
Profits
Field Behavior
Experiment
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Balafoutas, Loukas
Batsaikhan, Mongoljin
Sutter, Matthias
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
- (wo)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2021
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Balafoutas, Loukas
- Batsaikhan, Mongoljin
- Sutter, Matthias
- Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
Entstanden
- 2021
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