. This study follows the behavioral approaches to internationalization and conceptual ideas about risk and risk perception in … international business. The main goal is to understand how the risk perception of managers in Brazilian companies with different … was a greater emphasis on country/political risk factors, followed by monetary risk. The risks perceived with greater …

This paper analyses the effect of risk attitudes of firm owners on profits among micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in … Lagos, Nigeria. Higher risk perceptions are shown to have a significant positive effect on profits, whereas risk propensity … firms earn lower profits. Overall, the results suggest that being aware and dealing cautiously with risk leads to higher …