Portfolio Entrepreneurs: The role of risk

Malfense Fierro, Antonio; Rosa, Peter

Abstract

Financial portfolio theory suggests that diversifying through establishing a group of businesses may be an important mechanism to manage and spread risk, but empirical entrepreneurship research on portfolio entrepreneurship has failed to adequately identify how this relates to entrepreneurs’ actual behaviour.
This chapter evaluates the current literature and suggest a future research agenda for exploring the interplay or risk and portfolio entrepreneurship.

Citation

Malfense Fierro, A., & Rosa, P. (2022). Portfolio Entrepreneurs: The role of risk. In D. Lingelbach (Ed.), De Gruyter Handbook of Entrepreneurial Finance (75-85). Berlin: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110726312

• Online Publication Date: May 9, 2022
• Publication Date: May 23, 2022
• Deposit Date: May 4, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: May 10, 2023
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Pages: 75-85
• Series Title: De Gruyter Handbooks in Business, Economics and Finance
• Series ISSN: 2748-016X; 2748-0178
• Book Title: De Gruyter Handbook of Entrepreneurial Finance
• Chapter Number: 4
• ISBN: 9783110726756
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110726312
• Keywords: risk, portfolio entrepreneurship, business groups, diversification, opportunity, uncertainty
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/3987230
• Publisher URL: https://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/9783110726312/html?lang=en
• Contract Date: Mar 1, 2022