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Peer Effects And Entrepreneurship

Date: January 2008
Type: White Paper
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Overview: This research paper from Massachusetts Institute of Technology directly test the hypothesis that an individual’s colleagues might impact their transition to entrepreneurship, by looking at how diversity in the prior career histories of an individual’s peers relates to their own propensity to become an entrepreneur. They found that employees are more likely to become entrepreneurs if their co-workers have had prior self-employment experience or have had more diverse work experience in the past.


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