Risk-Taking Behavior

Organizational risk is often defined as a change in the flow of profit, or as a sys-tematic or non-systematic changes in the stock return flow. The risk taking of management is conceptualized as the actual investment decisions that are indictors due to uncertainty results. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of financial characteristics on future corporate risk taking behavior. After designing the indicators for assessing financial characteristics, the transaction data were collected from the Stock Exchange in the five-year period of 2011-2015. A sample of 111 companies was selected by sampling method based on the Cochran formula, which resulted in a total of 555 year-firm observations. In this study, linear regression and correlation were used to investigate the hypothesis, and for analyzing data and hypothesis testing, we used Eviews software. What can be said in the summing-up and conclusion of the general test of research hypotheses is that the disproportionate changes in sales costs, advertising costs, rental costs, liquidity, financial leverage, and disproportionate changes in capital costs have a positive impact on future corporate risk taking behavior. In addition, other results indicate a negative impact of disproportionate changes in sales growth, inventory, liquidity, and asset turnover on future corporate risk-taking behavior. The results obtained in this paper are consistent with the documentation referenced in the research's theoretical framework and financial literature..

Personality is one of the most important study structures in organizational behavior that can play an important role in predicting human behavior. To describe the differences in personality, emotional, and social behavior, researchers have proposed the theory of five personality factors, known as the Big Five. One of the decisions investors make is to allocate wealth to financial and non-financial assets. The importance of this decision is especially evident in financial assets due to their nature and the need for more knowledge and expertise in this field because the mistakes of investors in this regard can create many risks and challenges for them. The main purpose of this study is to explain the effect of personality traits and demographic features on the risk-taking behavior of investors in the Tehran Stock Exchange. The present research is applied research in terms of goals and descriptive-survey research from the method view. The statistical sample of this research includes 358 investors of the Tehran Stock Exchange during 2019 and 2020. Research data were collected based on Sivarjan's (2018) questionnaire. The results of data analysis using the structural equation modeling method indicate that personality traits including neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness have a positive and significant effect on risk-taking behavior. Still, demographic characteristics including gender, age, marital status, and education do not have a significant effect on risk-taking behavior.