International Journal of Research in Social Sciences
  • Year: 2013
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue: 4

Gender and decision-making styles of entrepreneurs

  • Author:
  • Mahmoud Motvaseli, Fariba Lotfizadeh
  • Total Page Count: 16
  • Page Number: 187 to 202

*Professor, Department of Entrepreneurship, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran

**MA Student, Department of Entrepreneurship, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran

Online published on 13 February, 2014.

Abstract

The present paper attempts to illustrate the decision-making styles used by entrepreneurs.

The paper takes a quantitative approach to test decision-making styles of entrepreneurs. Data were gathered through a self-administered survey among 162 students of Tehran University in Iran.

The results indicated that Iranian female and male students of entrepreneurship employed different decision-making styles.

Like most research studies, the main limitation of this study is that, it cannot easily be generalized. In other words, limitations of this study are due to self-reported data and small sample.

This is one of the first papers to evaluate the decision-making styles of entrepreneurs in Iran.

Keywords

Entrepreneurship, Decision-making styles, Gender Differences, Iranian Students