2010
When More control can lead to less positove job attitudes: Self-efficacy versus social support. Academy of Management Conference, Montreal, Canada, August 6-10, 2010.
Immigrant entrepreneurship and foreigners' liability. (presented by co-author) Academy of Management Conference, Montreal, Canada, August 6-10, 2010.
Good news, firm resources, and effective communication of new
product development failure. (presented by co-author)
Academy of Management Conference, Montreal, Canada, August 6-10,
2010.
Explaining Entrepreneurial Intent and Behavior: Moderating Effects of Efficacy and Control Beliefs. (presented by co-author) Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 9-12, 2010.
The Role of Management in Dealing with New Product Development
Failures in High Technology New Firms. Babson College
Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland, June
9-12, 2010.
Subjective Perceptions as Foreigners’ Liability: Perceptions, Attitudes, and Commitments under Risk and Ambiguity. (together with J. Zimmermann), Lehrstuhl für Industrieökonomik und Innovation, Schumpeter School of Business and Economics, Wuppertal, Germany, March 18, 2010.
Life,
work,
and entrepreneurship: I think I can – but does it matter?
(invited talk) Ted Rogers Business
School, Ryerson University, March 9, 2010.
2009
Theory of mixed control: Control beliefs as moderator of internal and external efficacy beliefs. Antwerp Center of Evolutionary Demography, University of Antwerp, The Netherlands, Septemer, 2009.
Self, others and chance: A multi-dimensional examination of efficacy, control and job attitudes. Academy of Management Conference, Chicago, USA, August, 2009.
A short measure of generalized beliefs in one’s own performance, other’s support, and good luck. Academy of Management Conference, Chicago, USA, August, 2009.
Inside view under full ambiguity: Ignoring information about others` performances. Research Seminar in Applied Microeconomics, Department of Economics, University of Cologne, Germany, June 29, 2009.
How much do they care? Entrepreneurial talent and other-regarding behavior. Annual Max Planck Ringberg Conference on Entrepreneurship, June 10-13, 2009.
A Plea for Individually 'Irrational' Entrepreneurship: How Entrepreneurial Overconfidence Affects Payoffs of an Entrepreneurial Population. Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Babson Park, MA, USA, June 3-6, 2009.
Entrepreneurs and Perceptions of Compound Risk: Moderating Effects of Efficacy and Control Beliefs. (presented by co-author) Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Babson Park, MA, USA, June 3-6, 2009.
Taking stock of some emerging research on entrepreneurial behavior and the human body: A Response. (invited, with S. D. Sarasvathy and R. Velamuri) Darden Entrepreneurship Retreat, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, USA, May 1-3, 2009.
Overconfidence studies: The search for an appropriate error-in-variables estimator. (invited semninar) Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany, March 4, 2009.
Inside view under full ambiguity. (invited seminar) Utrecht University, School of Economics, Utrecht, Netherlands, January 14, 2009.
2008
Individually 'irrational' entrepreneurship: Analyzing the welfare effects of belief distortions leading to entrepreneurial optimism. 53rd International Council for Small Business (ICSB) World Conference, Halifax, Canada, Halifax, Canada, Germany, June 22-25, 2008.
2007
Entrepreneurial overconfidence, optimism, and pessimism. What enhances our profits? Invited talk, Max Planck Institute of Human Development, Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Berlin, Germany, April 18, 2007.
A drift to more extreme but balanced attitudes: Attitudes with multiple dimensions and hierarchical bounded confidence. Invited talk, Cemagref, Laboratory of engineering for complex systems, Clermont-Ferrand, January 15, 2007. (pdf)
2006
Base rate neglect for the wealth of populations. 12th International conference on Computing in economics and finance, Limassol, Cyprus, June 22-24, 2006. (pdf)
Attitudes with multiple dimensions and hierarchical bounded confidence: A mechanism producing more extreme, but balanced attitudes. Third International Meeting Complex Behavior in Economics: Modeling, Computing and Mastering Complexity (Complexity '06), Aix en Provence, France, May, 2006. (pdf)
Enforcing consensus. (with J. Lorenz) Annual Meeting of the Section for Physics of Socio-economic Systems in the German Physical Society (AKSOE '06), Dresden, Germany, March, 2006. (pdf)
Split and bounded memory in a statistical approach to trust and reputation. EXYSTENCE Topical Workshop "Trust-Based Networks and Robustness in Organisations", ETH Zurich, Switzerland, March, 2006. (pdf)
2005
Negotiating Agents: From Full Autonomy to Degrees of Delegation. Fourth Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS '05), Utrecht, Netherlands, 2005 (poster, pdf)
Dynamics of structured attitudes and opinions. Third Conference of the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA' 05), Koblenz, Germany, 2005 (pdf)
Annual Meeting of the DFG priority research program "Sozionik", Kloster Seeon, Germany, 2005
2004
Negotiating by balancing personal utilities. Concurrency, Specification & Programming (CS&P '04) Workshop, Berlin, Germany, 2004
Communication regimes in opinion dynamics: Changing the number of communicating agents. Second Conference of the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA' 04), Valladolid, Spain, 2004
Delegation to Artificial Agents: Are There Relevant Behavioral Patterns? From Distributed Artificial Intelligence to Experimental Economics. Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena, Germany, 2004.
Opinion Dynamics and Innovation Diffusion. Thematic Workshop (TW) "Multi-Agent Systems - Swarms, Ecology, and Society", Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden, Germany, 2004 (pdf)
C-IPS Approach to Negotiating Agents: Specifying dynamic interdependencies between issue, partner, and step. Third Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS '04), New York, USA, 2004 (poster, pdf)
Annual Meeting of the DFG priority research program "Sozionik", Kloster Seeon, Germany, 2004
Cognition-based attitude and opinion dynamics. First International Winter School "Physics of socio-economic systems", Konstanz, Germany, 2004 (pdf)
2003
The C-IPS Agent Architecture for Modeling Negotiating Social Agents. First German Conference on Multiagent System Technology (MATES '03), Erfurt, Germany,2003
The value chain's values: Interpretations and Implications for industry and firm analysis. Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research (BIR), Berlin, Germany, 2003
Annual Meeting of the DFG priority research program "Sozionik", Kloster Seeon, Germany, 2003
Workshop of ASIM "Simulation und Computational Intelligence" (FG 4.5.2) und der Fachgruppe "Verteilte Künstliche Intelligenz" (FG 1.1.6), Berlin, Germany, 2003
2002
Annual Meeting of the DFG priority research program "Sozionik", Kloster Seeon, Germany, 2002
Norbert Wiener (1894 - 1964). presentation at the 2001 summer school of the German National Merit Foundation, St. Johann, 2.-15. Sep 2001. (pdf)