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The Role of Owner in Capital Structure Decisions: An Analysis of Single-Owner Corporations

Ang, James; Cole, Rebel; Lawson, Daniel - In: Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance 14 (2010) 3, pp. 1-36

This study examines the extent to which individual demographic characteristics of owners influence capital structure desisions. Using the Federal Reserve's 2003 Survey of Small Business Finances, we estimate the joint effects of traditional capital structure determinants and manager age, gender,...

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Personality characteristics and the decisions to become and stay self-employed

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank; Kritikos, Alexander - In: Small Business Economics 42 (2014) 4, pp. 787-814

Based on a large, representative German household panel, we investigate to what extent the personality of individuals influences the entry decision into and the exit decision from self-employment. We reveal that some traits, such as openness to experience, extraversion, and risk tolerance affect...

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Understanding entrepreneurship in the South African context : insights from entrepreneurial risk attitudes of four major ethnic groups

Dzansi, Dennis Yao; Arko-Achemfuor, Akwasi - In: African journal of science, technology, innovation & … 8 (2016) 1/2, pp. 146-154

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Performance and risk as signals for setting up a franchised business

Calderón-Monge, Esther; Huerta-Zavala, Pilar - In: Journal of small business strategy 23 (2013) 2, pp. 41-57

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Personality characteristics and the decisions to become and stay self-employed

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 42 (2014) 4, pp. 787-814

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Explaining the entrepreneurial intentions of employees : the roles of societal norms, work-related creativity and personal resources

Ng, Poh Yen; De Clercq, Dirk - In: International small business journal : ISBJ 39 (2021) 8, pp. 732-754

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Does risk tolerance behaviour of entrepreneur affect the growth of entrepreneurial firms through the mediation of effectuation decision-making approach?

Masroor, Imtiaz; Alam, Md. Nur - In: International journal of export marketing : IJExportM 3 (2019) 2, pp. 79-104

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The non-linear impact of risk tolerance on entrepreneurial profit and business survival

Koch, Melanie; Menkhoff, Lukas - 2024

Entrepreneurs tend to be risk tolerant but is more risk tolerance always better? In a sample of about 2,100 small businesses, we find an inverted U-shaped relation between risk tolerance and profitability. This relationship holds in a simple bilateral regression and also when we control for a...

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Do you need to be risk-tolerant to become an entrepreneur? : the importance of the reference point

Fuentelsaz, Lucio; Maicas, Juan Pablo; Montero, Javier - In: Entrepreneurship research journal : ERJ 12 (2022) 4, pp. 471-500

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How do judgmental overconfidence and overoptimism shape innovative activity?

Herz, Holger; Schunk, Daniel; Zehnder, Christian - In: Games and Economic Behavior 83 (2014) C, pp. 1-23

Recent field evidence suggests a positive link between overconfidence and innovative activities. In this paper we argue … that the connection between overconfidence and innovation is more complex than the previous literature suggests. In … particular, we show theoretically and experimentally that different forms of overconfidence may have opposing effects on …

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