Management Review ›› 2022, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (5): 252-264.

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Entrepreneur Emotions, Legitimacy and Risk-taking Ability

Yang Hanming1, Yu Xiaoliang1, Zhang Qing2   

  1. 1. School of Accounting, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan 430073;
    2. School of Accounting, Hubei University of Economics, Wuhan 430205
  • Received:2021-07-14 Online:2022-05-28 Published:2022-06-17

Abstract: Based on the entrepreneur emotions scale developed in this study, we use a set of survey data together with structural equations to test the influence of entrepreneur emotions on companies' risk-taking ability and its mechanism. The results show that after exploratory factor analysis and correction, the entrepreneur emotions scale constructed in this paper has strong reliability and validity, which can accurately describe the level of entrepreneur emotions; Entrepreneur emotions can significantly promote risk-taking abilities of listed companies; The indirect effect of entrepreneur emotions on risk-taking ability is significantly greater than the direct effect, and corporate legitimacy plays an intermediary role between entrepreneur emotions and risk-taking ability. These conclusions have significangt enlightenments for deeply understanding the economic consequences of entrepreneur emotions, effectively promoting entrepreneur emotions, and practically improving enterprises' risk-taking ability.

Key words: entrepreneur emotions, corporate legitimacy, risk-taking ability