Entrepreneurship and Risk Aversion

By Kamhon Kan, W. Tsai. 2006

156 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/d54a415b84b29a9b0769aecb48165240de043498

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Accounting

In Economics and Econometrics

In Management of Technology and Innovation

Citations in the corpus

What do we know about entrepreneurial finance and its relationship with growth? (2015, background): “Instead, the relationship may reflect that wealthier individuals are less risk averse (and therefore more willing to start a business; Cressy, 2000; Kan and Tsai, 2006), have higher human capital (and therefore, more able to start a business; Bosma et al., 2004) or that business ownership is due to…”
Gender gap in latent and nascent entrepreneurship: driven by competitiveness (2013, background): “2002), recent empirical studies tend to confirm that the probability of becoming self-employed is positively related to an individuals’ willingness to take risks and therefore negatively related to risk aversion (Caliendo et al. 2009; Kan and Tsai 2006).”
Is entrepreneurship necessarily good? Microeconomic evidence from developed and developing countries (2013, background): “For instance, Evans and Jovanovic (1989) found that the initial level of assets strongly influences the probability of self-employment (Blanchflower and Oswald, 1998; Cabral and Mata, 2003; Hurst and Lusardi, 2004; Kan and Tsai, 2006).”
How Do Risk Attitudes Differ within the Group of Entrepreneurs? The Role of Motivation and Procedural Utility (2015, unknown): “Because risk taking is considered a crucial aspect of entrepreneurial behavior (Douglas and Shepherd 2002; Forlani and Mullins 2000; Ibrahim and Ellis 1993; Kan and Tsai 2006; Miller 2007; Moensted 2007; Van Gelderen, Frese, and Thurik 2000), we suggest treating necessity entrepreneurs as a separate”