Cognitive Antecedents of Family Business Bias in Investment Decisions: A Commentary on ''Risky Decisions and the Family Firm Bias: An Experimental Study based on Prospect Theory''
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.
Recommended Citation
Fang, C., Siau, K., Memili, E., & Dou, J. (2019). Cognitive Antecedents of Family Business Bias in Investment Decisions: A Commentary on ''Risky Decisions and the Family Firm Bias: An Experimental Study based on Prospect Theory''. Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 43(2 Special Issue), pp. 409-416. SAGE Publications Ltd.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1177/1042258718796073
Department(s)
Business and Information Technology
Keywords and Phrases
Cognitive bias; Family business
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
1042-2587; 1540-6520
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2019 The Authors, All rights reserved.
Publication Date
01 Mar 2019
