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A Closer Look at Entrepreneurship and Attitude toward Risk

Curry, Joshua G
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1399829408

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2014, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, Psychology/Industrial-Organizational.
Entrepreneurs' attitudes toward risk have been researched in the past with mixed and often contradictory results. Utilizing Blais and Weber's (2006) domain specific approach to understanding risk taking attitudes (DOSPERT), the present study investigated the relation of risk taking attitudes of entrepreneurs across risk-taking domains. In addition, we examined the relation of domain-specific risk attitudes to self-reported entrepreneurship. Results show that entrepreneurs show the greatest amount of risk taking in the social domain, and are generally more risk taking than non-entrepreneurs on most DOSPERT dimensions. Of the outcome variables examined (self-report success, firm creation, & business survival), financial risk taking and self-report success showed a significant relation. Contrary to what was hypothesized, there were no other significant relations between entrepreneurship, financial risk taking and any of the outcome variables, nor was there any interactional effect between financial risk taking and entrepreneurship. Additional analyses show that social risk taking is a significant predictor of self-reported entrepreneurship. Also, social risk taking provided significant incremental variance in the prediction of entrepreneurship above and beyond the Big Five.
Scott Highhouse (Advisor)
Margaret Brooks (Committee Member)
Robert Carels (Committee Member)
60 p.
Psychology
Industrial-organizational psychology; risk; risk taking; entrepreneurship; DOSPERT; risk attitudes; entrepreneur; attitudes

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  • Curry, J. G. (2014). A Closer Look at Entrepreneurship and Attitude toward Risk [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1399829408

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Curry, Joshua. A Closer Look at Entrepreneurship and Attitude toward Risk. 2014. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1399829408.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Curry, Joshua. "A Closer Look at Entrepreneurship and Attitude toward Risk." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1399829408

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