Nicos Nicolaou's research while affiliated with The University of Warwick and other places

... In addition, research finds that neuroticism trait influence career success negatively (Martin et al., 2016). However, this negative influence may be neutralized where the organization avoids adversity and has security-assuring values (Nicolaou et al., 2021). Sinha and Srivastava (2013) also observed that entrepreneur with neuroticism trait is drawn to firms with low risk-taking values. ...

... For example, Heinrich and Shachat [18], Andersson et al. [40], Galliera and Rutström [41], and Liu and Treich [42] used a lottery to measure risk preference. Weber et al. [43], Beauchamp et al. [44], and Nicolaou and Shane [45] used their respondents' attitudes towards risky options as their risk aversion index. Mentzakis and Sadeh [19] used gambling to measure risk aversion. ...

... Mental models/belief systems are theoretical, not directly observable phenomena, usually inferred from people's existing or, as here, specifically induced communications (Evans, 1998;Ifenthaler et al., 2011;Rouse and Morris, 1986). It might be added that neuroscientific methods (Nicolaou et al., 2019) can reveal brain activities, e.g. causal thinking engaging the lateral prefrontal cortex (Khemlani et al., 2014), but not what someone knows or thinks about something. ...

... Gene mutation occurs at t nucleotide level is known as single nucleotide polymorphism. It occurs due to the in amino acid sequences, which affect the transcription, intrinsic termination, an dependent termination, this also results in altered enzyme activity [7]. ...

... Interestingly, a growing body of research draws increased attention to the influence of dynamic factors, like the influence of dayto-day variations in moods and emotions on entrepreneurs' efforts (e.g., Baron, 2008;Delgado García et al., 2015;Foo et al., 2009). Moreover, a prominent interest is emerging for examining the impact of biological factors for entrepreneurship (Nicolaou et al., 2018a;Nicolaou et al., 2018b;Nofal et al., 2018;Shepherd and Patzelt, 2015;Wiklund et al., 2017). Combining both impetuses, a few scholars have begun investigating the physiological dynamics underpinning entrepreneurs' capabilities. ...

... Thus, we extend the work on innovation ambidexterity by paying attention to balancing, combining, and identifing how blending the balance and combination can promote ambidexterity. Our findings not only add to the evidence that ambidexterity can be viewed as a blend of balanced innovation ambidexterity and combined innovation ambidexterity, but also answer recent calls for a better understanding of the antecedents associated with the balanced and combined approaches to manage ambidexterity [67]. ...

... SMEs build success on reputation and adopt a risk-taking way to succeed, whereas larger enterprises mainly involve in knowledge exploitation practices [29]. Knowledge exploration seems to be a prevalent behavior of SMEs, owing scarce resources to explore new ideas and innovation to adopt a creative approach to survive and grow [30]. ...

... In addition, venture competitions are not the only setting where early-stage ventures are evaluated. Other institutions provide support to early-stage ventures (Shane & Nicolaou, 2018), and they differ from venture competitions in terms of evaluators' incentives, interaction with entrepreneurs, and decision-making protocols. Summing up, while we study an important context, we acknowledge that its generalizability may be limited. ...

... One way to maintain the existence of a startup is to provide mentors and assistance during the creation and initial steps of establishing a start-up [8]. In addition, to survive in the start-up industry the most needed is to focus on strategy and innovation [9]. Brand awareness is also one of the important points in showing the existence of a start-up [10]. ...

... Despite acknowledging the role of variations in brain structure or function (Mitchell et al., 2007), entrepreneurial cognition research has generally overlooked recent scholarly efforts to better understand how biological differences, in general (Bönte et al., 2016), and neurobiological differences, in particular (Becker et al., 2011;Nicolaou & Shane, 2014;, relate to entrepreneurial thinking and decision making (McMullen et al., 2014;Nofal et al., 2017). Our study contributes to entrepreneurial cognition research by empirically examining focal entrepreneurial cognition patterns in individuals with ADHD who have launched an entrepreneurial venture; cognition patterns that we expect to vary between entrepreneurs with and without ADHD. ...