Considering business start-up in recession time: The role of risk perception and economic context in shaping the entrepreneurial intent

By Ghulam Nabi, F. Liñán. 2013

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine under-researched psychological and environmental factors related to entrepreneurial motivation and intention. This helps us to explore the links between risk perception (risk as opportunity and risk as threat), economic context (in a recession), entrepreneurial motivation (personal attitudes and perceived behavioral control) and intention for new venture creation. Design/methodology/approach – A sample of 619 individuals from two European countries, Spain and Great Britain, is studied. A range of control variables have been considered, including demographics, human/social capital and country effects. Structural equation modeling is used to analyze the relationships among the model constructs. Findings – The structural model broadly holds and adequately fits the data. Entrepreneurial risk perception is strongly linked with entrepreneurial motivation. Entrepreneurial motivation, in turn, is strongly linked with entrepreneurial intention. It suggests, therefo...

Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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In Accounting

1. Alain Fayolle
2. Kuen‐Hung Tsai
3. Chen-Yi Peng
4. Hui-Chen Chang
5. Imran Saleem
6. I. Anwar
7. F. Liñán

In Management of Technology and Innovation

1. Alain Fayolle
2. Imran Saleem
3. I. Anwar
4. F. Liñán
5. Jianfeng Cai
6. Sidra Ramzan
7. Hina Munir
8. Kuen‐Hung Tsai

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. Alain Fayolle
2. Jianfeng Cai
3. Sidra Ramzan
4. Hina Munir
5. Imran Saleem
6. I. Anwar
7. F. Liñán
8. Kuen‐Hung Tsai

Citations in the corpus

• A systematic literature review on entrepreneurial intentions: citation, thematic analyses, and research agenda (2015, background): “Additionally, other, more specific, personality traits have been studied, such as risk perceptions (e.g., Segal et al. 2005; Nabi and Liñán 2013), locus of control (e.”
• Refining the linkage between perceived capability and entrepreneurial intention: roles of perceived opportunity, fear of failure, and gender (2016, background): “The unexpected non-significance may be explained by the work of Nabi and Liñán (2013) that persons with low risk perception may still not intend to start a business if they do not perceive opportunities.”
• Individual entrepreneurial orientation, entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention: The mediating role of entrepreneurial motivations (2021, background): “Other studies have shown that entrepreneurial motivations act as a determining factor in the development of EI – for example, Nabi and Liñán (2013); Solesvik (2013); Antonioli et al. (2016); Barba-Sánchez and Atienza-Sahuquillo (2017) and Lang and Liu (2019).”
• Personality traits and theory of planned behavior comparison of entrepreneurial intentions between an emerging economy and a developing country (2019, background): “Prior studies explained the mediating role of TPB’s three attitudinal dimensions in predicting the role of personality traits and EIs (e.g. Feder and Niţu-Antonie, 2017; Lüthje and Franke, 2003; Nabi and Liñán, 2013).”