Gender, Risk, and Venture Creation Intentions

Dawson, Chris; Henley, Andrew

Abstract

© 2013 International Council for Small Business. This paper is concerned with whether women are less likely to express business start-up intentions because of a less favorable 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.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2015
• Deposit Date: Oct 22, 2012
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 4, 2016
• Journal: Journal of Small Business Management
• Print ISSN: 0047-2778
• Electronic ISSN: 1540-627X
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 53
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 501-515
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jsbm.12080
• Keywords: gender, risk, venture, creation intentions
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/836389
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jsbm.12080
• Related Public URLs: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1540-627X
• Additional Information: Additional Information : First published online 29 December 2013. This is the accepted version of the following article: Dawson, C. and Henley, A. (2013) Gender, risk and venture creation intentions. Journal of Small Business Management. ISSN 1540-627X, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jsbm.12080
• Contract Date: Mar 4, 2016