Cognitive biases, risk perception, and venture formation: How individuals decide to start companies

By M. Simon, Susan M. Houghton, Karl Aquino. 2000

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Subfields: Accounting, Finance, General Decision Sciences

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Considering business start-up in recession time: The role of risk perception and economic context in shaping the entrepreneurial intent (2013, background): “It is this psychology of risk or risk perception that predicts the individuals’ entrepreneurial intention (Barbosa et al. 2007b) and new venture creation (Palich & Bagby 1995; Simon et al. 2000), and is thus considered an important factor in understanding entrepreneurial cognition and behavior.”
Career motives and entrepreneurial decision-making: examining preferences for causal and effectual logics in the early stage of new ventures (2011, background): “Forlani and Mullins 2000; Gustafsson 2006 ;L e´vesque and Schade 2005; Mullins and Forlani 2005; Simon et al. 2000 ).”
Should I stay or should I go? Career choice intentions of students with family business background (2011, background): “…choice intentions andmotives of founder entrepreneurs (e.g., Carroll andMosakowski, 1987; Kolvereid, 1996a; Baron, 1998; Krueger et al., 2000; Simon et al., 2000; Carter et al., 2003; Lee et al., in press), we lack an understanding of the antecedents to career choice intentions of successors.”
What Makes an Entrepreneurship Study Entrepreneurial? Toward A Unified Theory of Entrepreneurial Agency (2020, background): “…et al., 2007), and multiple perspectives emerged in response, including: (1) the use of heuristicbased logic (Baron, 1998; Busenitz & Barney, 1997; Simon et al., 2000); (2) perceived connections and alertness (Gaglio & Katz, 2001; Kirzner, 1985); and, (3) entrepreneurial information processing…”
The Study of Bias in Entrepreneurship (2017, background): “Few have studied the interactions between biases and other factors, such as risk perception (Grichnik, 2008; Keh et al; Simon et al., 2000) and prior experience (Carr & Blettner, 2010).”
Do serial entrepreneurs run successively better-performing businesses? (2013, background): “But after they perform well, in contrast, entrepreneurs are assumed to behave very differently, being prey to “competency traps” (March, 1991) or “hubris” (Hayward et al., 2006; Simon et al., 2000).”
The Role of Cognitive Style and Risk Preference on Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and Entrepreneurial Intentions (2007, methodology): “In the framework we adopted from Sitkin and Pablo (1992), risk preference is a determinant of risk propensity and risk behavior.”