Determinants of risk readiness as a resource in women’s entrepreneurship

Abstract

The growth of the scale of women’s entrepreneurship highlights the interest in studying both the specifics of the phenomenon itself and the resource potential of its main subject – women entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is built on risk, and the readiness for risk largely determines the success and stability of a business. The aim of the analysis in this article is to determine how the sufficiency/insufficiency of the resource of risk readiness in women’s entrepreneurship is linked to a range of individually subjectively evaluated dispositions in one or another coordinate system. The task was to assess the productivity of introducing the concept of disposition (status) in risk-related research and to determine the presence or absence of differentiation among holders and those in need of risk readiness as a resource in women’s entrepreneurship. The empirical basis of the analysis is the data from the “Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey of HSE (RLMS-HSE)”. The methodology of target group analysis is applied. The results of the exploratory study revealed differentiation in several indicators of emotional status, socialpsychological attitudes, financial status, value profile, and decision-making subjectivity in risk and uncertainty situations. Such results allow for considering them with a reasonable degree of certainty as interconnected with risk readiness. The methodological approach of considering dispositions as existing statuses of individuals in specific coordinate systems proved to be productive. A promising task in this regard is a deeper methodological and conceptual elaboration of the concept in connection with risk-related issues.