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Risk-Taking Propensity and Entrepreneurship: Neurological Indications of Risky Decision-Making among the Managers of the Incubator Center Branches (in Persian)

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  • Nejati, Vahid

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Recognizing entrepreneurial behaviors requires recognizing the neural bases of entrepreneurial thinking in a deeper level. Nowadays, it is possible to study entrepreneurship in a neural processing level. This research uses Balloon Analogue Risk Take (BART) neurological tool to compare risky decision-making in 20 managers of the incubator centers branches affiliated to the University of Tehran and Shahid-Beheshti University with 20 non-entrepreneurial counterparts. This test measures the risk-taking propensity of individuals in real world conditions. The data were analyzed by independent T-test through SPSS software application. The findings of BART test revealed that there was a significant difference in the number of burst balloons at the 0.05 level between the two groups. Comparison showed that as far as this test item was concerned, the average score of entrepreneurial group was more than that of the other group. The number of times that the two groups tried money-saving during the test was significantly different from one another in this item, the score of the control group at the 0.05 level was significantly more than that of the entrepreneurial group. There was no significant difference between the two groups considering other variables of the test including the number of all the balloons pumping-up times as well as the maximum and minimum times of the balloons pumping-ups at the 0.05 level although they were more in the entrepreneurial group than the other one. Risk-taking propensity is a suitable way of foretelling entrepreneurship and it could be employed to search for talented people.

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  • Nejati, Vahid, 2012. "Risk-Taking Propensity and Entrepreneurship: Neurological Indications of Risky Decision-Making among the Managers of the Incubator Center Branches (in Persian)," Management and Development Process Quarterly (٠صلنامه ٠رایند مدیریت Ùˆ توسعه), Institute for Management and Planning studies, vol. 24(4), pages 113-123, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:auv:jijmdp:v:24:y:2012:i:4:p:113-123
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