{"id":1994,"slug":"busenitz-barney-1997-entrepreneurs-more-biased","title":"Busenitz & Barney 1997 — entrepreneurs more overconfident than corporate managers","kind":"reference","scope":"business","status":"current","audiences":["kevin","candid-team"],"topics":["entrepreneurial-overconfidence"],"reference_body":"**Claim:** Busenitz & Barney (1997, *Journal of Business Venturing*) found entrepreneurs show significantly more overconfidence and representativeness bias than managers in large organizations.\n\n**Source:** Busenitz & Barney 1997 JBV.\n\n**Confidence:** Verified.\n\n**Why this matters for Candid:** The widget's sample population (SMB founders/owners) is the most-biased one in the literature — even more so than corporate managers, who already self-rate above average. Calibrate accordingly.","rationale_body":null,"metadata":null,"links":{"outgoing":[],"incoming":[{"slug":"research-brief-smb-widget-capture-layer-june-2026","title":"Research brief: SMB widget capture layer — what owners can vs cannot self-report (June 2026)","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"}]},"created_at":"2026-06-23T19:16:00.904Z","updated_at":"2026-06-23T19:16:00.904Z"}