Gender, Risk, and Venture Creation Intentions

By Chris Dawson, Andrew Henley. Social Science Research Network, 2015

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This paper is concerned with whether women are less likely to express business start‐up intentions because of a less favorable attitude to risk. Previous research suggests that attitude to risk differs significantly between genders, but has not addressed the question of whether this contributes to lower levels of female interest in venture creation. This paper describes a conceptual basis for this question, and investigates it using a survey of business start‐up intention from across a sample of European universities. A large proportion of the difference in average levels of intention between genders appears to be associated with attitude to risk.

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

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Perceived public support and entrepreneurship attitudes: A little reciprocity can go a long way! (2020, background): “…higher risk tolerance than small business managers (Begley and Boyd, 1987) and that low risk aversion is positively related to the choice of entrepreneurship as a career (Caliendo, Fossen, & Kritikos, 2009; Cramer, Hartog, Jonker, & Van Praag, 2002; Dawson & Henley, 2015; Douglas & Shepherd, 2002).”
Institutional support and women’s entrepreneurial self-efficacy (2017, background): “First, unlike the vast majority of prior female entrepreneurship research that focuses exclusively on the formation of entrepreneurial intentions based on student samples (Dawson and Henley, 2015; Langowitz andMinniti, 2007; Shinnar et al., 2012), this article sheds light on active female entreprene”
Are the Intentions to Entrepreneurship of Men and Women Shaped Differently? The Impact of Entrepreneurial Role-Model Exposure and Entrepreneurship Education (2017, background): “On the one hand, women generally have a less positive attitude to risk (Dawson and Henley 2015), and having parental role models might have a greater effect on entrepreneurial attitude in women than in men.”