Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship (벤처창업연구)

The Korean Society of Business Venturing (한국벤처창업학회)
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The Effects of Cognitive Bias on Entrepreneurial Opportunity Evaluations through Perceived Risks in Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy

창업가의 인지편향이 지각된 위험과 조절된 창업효능감에 따라 창업기회평가에 미치는 영향

  • 김대엽 (청운대학교 미래창업학과) ;
  • 박재환 (중앙대학교 경영경제대학 경영학부)
  • Received : 2019.08.08
  • Accepted : 2020.02.20
  • Published : 2020.02.29
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Abstract

This paper is to investigate how cognitive bias of college students and entrepreneurs relates to perceived risks and entrepreneurial opportunities that represent uncertainty, and how various cognitive bias and entrepreneurial efficacy In the same way. The purpose of this study is to find improvement points of entrepreneurship education for college students and to suggest problems and improvement possibilities in the decision making process of current entrepreneurs. This empirical study is a necessary to improve the decision-making of individuals who want to start a business at the time when various attempts are made to activate the start-up business and increase the sustainability of the existing SME management. And understanding of the difference in opportunity evaluation, and suggests that it is necessary to provide good opportunities together with the upbringing of entrepreneurs. In order to achieve the purpose of the study, questionnaires were conducted for college students and entrepreneurs. A total of 363 questionnaire data were obtained and demonstrated through structural equation modeling. This study confirms that there is some relationship between perceived risk and cognitive bias. Overconfidence and control illusions among cognitive bias have a significant relationship between perceived risk and wealth. Especially, it is confirmed that control illusion of college students has a significant relationship with perceived risk. Second, cognitive bias demonstrated some significant relationship with opportunity evaluation. Although we did not find evidence that excess self-confidence is related to opportunity evaluation, we have verified that control illusions and current status bias are related to opportunity evaluation. Control illusions were significant in both college students and entrepreneurs. Third, perceived risk has a negative relationship with opportunity evaluation. All students, regardless of whether they are college students or entrepreneurs, judge opportunities positively if they perceive low risk. Fourth, it can be seen from the college students 'group that entrepreneurial efficacy has a moderating effect between perceived risk and opportunity evaluation, but no significant results were found in the entrepreneurs' group. Fifth, the college students and entrepreneurs have different cognitive bias, and they have proved that there is a different relationship between entrepreneurial opportunity evaluation and perceived risk. On the whole, there are various cognitive biases that are caused by time pressure or stress on college students and entrepreneurs who have to make judgments in uncertain opportunities, and in this respect, they can improve their judgment in the future. At the same time, university students can have a positive view of new opportunities based on high entrepreneurial efficacy, but if they fully understand the intrinsic risks of entrepreneurship through entrepreneurial education and fully understand the cognitive bias present in direct entrepreneurial experience, You will get a better opportunity assessment. This study has limitations in that it is based on the fact that university students and entrepreneurs are integrated, and that the survey respondents are selected by the limited random sampling method. It is necessary to conduct more systematic research based on more faithful data in the absence of the accumulation of entrepreneurial research data. Second, the translation tools used in the previous studies were translated and the meaning of the measurement tools might not be conveyed due to language differences. Therefore, it is necessary to construct a more precise scale for the accuracy of the study. Finally, complementary research should be done to identify what competitive opportunities are and what opportunities are appropriate for entrepreneurs.

본 연구는 개인이 지닌 인지편향이 지각된 위험 및 창업기회평가와 어떤 연관성이 있는지를 알아보고, 창업집단에 따라 인지편향과 창업효능감이 창업기회를 다르게 평가하는지를 분석하는 것이다. 본 연구를 통해 대학생을 위한 창업교육의 개선점을 찾고, 현직의 창업가가 행하는 의사결정과정에서 어떤 문제점이 있으며 개선 가능성이 있는지를 제시하고자 한다. 대학생과 창업가를 대상으로 설문을 실시하였으며, 총 363명의 설문 데이터를 기반으로 구조방정식모형을 통해 실증하였다. 연구분석 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 인지편향과 지각된 위험은 유의적인 부의 관계를 가지며, 구체적으로 인지편향 중 과잉자신감과 통제착각은 지각된 위험과 부(-)의 유의적 관계를 가지는 것으로 분석되었다. 둘째로, 인지편향은 기회평가와 유의한 정(+)의 관계가 있으며 구체적으로 통제착각과 현상유지편향과 유의한 정(+)의 관계를 가지는 것으로 분석되었다. 셋째, 지각된 위험은 기회평가와 유의한 부(-)의 관계가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 넷째, 대학생과 창업가집단을 나누어 살펴본 창업집단간의 차이를 살펴보면 창업효능감이 지각된 위험과 기회평가 사이에서 조절효과를 하고 있다는 것을 대학생집단에서는 확인할 수 있으나, 창업가집단에서는 유의미한 결과를 발견하지 못했다. 또한 대학생집단과 창업가집단은 다른 인지편향을 가지고 있으며, 지각된 위험을 매개로 창업기회평가에 다르게 관계가 있음을 실증하였다. 불확실한 상황에서 판단을 해야 하는 예비 창업가인 대학생과 기존 창업가에게는 시간적인 압박, 또는 스트레스를 원인으로 발생하는 서로 다른 인지편향이 존재하며, 이런 편향의 존재를 인정하고 스스로 자신의 판단을 개선하는 노력을 해야 한다는 점을 확인하였다. 대학생은 높은 창업효능감을 기반으로 새로운 기회에 대한 긍정적인 시각을 지닐 수 있지만, 창업교육을 통해 창업이 가지고 있는 본질적인 위험에 대한 철저한 지각과 함께 직접적인 창업경험에 존재하는 인지편향을 충분히 이해한다면 과거보다 좋은 기회평가를 하게 될 수 있다는 점이다. 본 연구는 대학생과 창업가를 통합하여 실증하였다는 점과 제한된 방식의 임의추출법에 의해 설문응답자를 선정하였다는 점에서 한계를 가진다. 두 번째로 선행연구에서 사용한 측정도구를 번역하여 사용하였으며, 언어 문제로 측정도구의 명확한 의미가 전달되지 않을 수도 있다. 연구의 정확성을 위해 보다 정밀한 척도를 구성할 필요가 있을 것이다.

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