The dark side of entrepreneurship: Researchers prove anti-social tendencies of entrepreneurs

Is it true, that entrepreneurs are a particularly self-serving species with their own moral ideas and ethical principles? Does the type of the entrepreneurial "homo oeconomicus" exist? And if so: what makes him so? Together with Swedish colleagues of the University of Stockholm, psychologists of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena tried to answer these questions. In their search for anti-social tendencies in the biographies of business founders, they came to surprising conclusions.