Entrepreneurship training, risk aversion and other personality traits: Evidence from a random experiment

By R. Fairlie, W. Holleran. 2012

200 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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Citations in the corpus

• Personality characteristics and the decisions to become and stay self-employed (2013, unknown): “In this respect, Fairlie and Holleran (2012) are the first to report that those individuals who are more risk tolerant benefit more from entrepreneurship training than less risk tolerant individuals.”
• Personal Characteristics of Entrepreneurs in the Context of Perception and Management of Business Risk in the Sme Segment (2015, background): “According to Fairlie and Holleran (2012) the personality with a higher tolerance for risk uses more of their professional knowledge from the past than personalities with a lower tolerance for risk.”
• Factors Affecting Entrepreneurship and Business Sustainability (2018, background): “Moreover, entrepreneurial individuals have a heightened sense of self-efficacy, believe in themselves, feel capable of achieving their goals, attribute the cause of their successes or failures to themselves [16], and tend to be proactive, autonomous, and risk tolerant [30].”