Cognitive Antecedents of Family Business Bias in Investment Decisions
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Esra Memili, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: Lude and Prügl explored “family business bias,” a cognitive tendency where the family nature of a firm can often reduce investors’ perceived risk in investments. As a result, investors would display lower risk-avoidance in the gain domain and reinforced risk-seeking in the loss domain. We expanded the authors’ work by introducing four cognitive factors (anchoring, representativeness, stereotype heuristic, and information availability) that can explain the underlying mechanisms behind the prevalence of “family business bias” and other cognitive misperceptions surrounding family businesses when it comes to investment decisions.
Cognitive Antecedents of Family Business Bias in Investment Decisions
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- Publication
- Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 43(2), 409-416. https://doi.org/10.1177/1042258718796073
- Language: English
- Date: 2019
- Keywords
- family business, cognitive bias