Download This PaperAre Individuals with Entrepreneurial Characteristics More Likely to Engage in Destruction? An Experimental Investigation Among Potential 21st Century Entrepreneurs in Tunisia
17 Pages Posted: 5 May 2020
Date Written: January 2020
Abstract
We test experimentally whether individuals high in some entrepreneurial characteristics are more likely to engage in destructive behavior than other individuals. In the joy‐of‐destruction game, participants can either preserve or costly burn the endowment of each other. In some treatments they can hide from other participants whether they are responsible for destruction. We found that participants high in some entrepreneurial characteristics are significantly more likely to adopt destructive behaviours.
Keywords: destruction, entrepreneurs, joy‐of‐destruction game
JEL Classification: L26, L29, C91
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
El Harbi, Sana and Grolleau, Gilles and Sutan, Angela and Ben Ticha, Zeyneb, Are Individuals with Entrepreneurial Characteristics More Likely to Engage in Destruction? An Experimental Investigation Among Potential 21st Century Entrepreneurs in Tunisia (January 2020). Bulletin of Economic Research, Vol. 72, Issue 1, pp. 33-49, 2020, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3591305 or http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/boer.12204
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