Gender, risk and venture creation intentions

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This paper is concerned with whether women are less likely to express business start-up intentions because of a less favourable attitude to risk. Previous research suggests that attitude to risk differs significantly between genders, but has not addressed the question of whether this contributes to lower levels of female interest in venture creation. This paper describes a conceptual basis for this question, and investigates it using a survey of business start-up intention from across a sample of European universities. A large proportion of the difference in average levels of intention between genders appears to be associated with attitude to risk.

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• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 6947

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Expectations; Speculations ; Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; New Firms; Startups
• Subject: entrepreneurship intentions ; attitude to risk ; gender difference ; Unternehmer ; Unternehmensgründung ; Geschlecht ; Risikopräferenz ; Weibliche Führungskräfte ; Europa

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Dawson, Christopher ; Henley, Andrew
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2012

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/67268