The impact of communist imprint prevalence on the risk-taking propensity of successful Russian entrepreneurs

Scholars debate whether entrepreneurs socialised under communism exhibit an increased or subdued risk-taking propensity after that experience. Some note that communism discouraged standing out and thus risk-taking, while others counter that communism necessitated risk-taking to survive. We reconcile this debate by differentiating between reformist and hard-line communist imprints. In so doing, we extend communist imprinting theory by introducing...