Bibliographic citations
Sánchez, M., Rojas, K., Hidalgo, M., Paiva, J., Manrique, M. (2023). El sesgo de exceso de confianza en la toma de decisiones empresariales en ejecutivos en el Perú [Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú]. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/24868
Sánchez, M., Rojas, K., Hidalgo, M., Paiva, J., Manrique, M. El sesgo de exceso de confianza en la toma de decisiones empresariales en ejecutivos en el Perú []. PE: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; 2023. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/24868
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title = "El sesgo de exceso de confianza en la toma de decisiones empresariales en ejecutivos en el Perú",
author = "Manrique Henríquez, Miguel Ángel",
publisher = "Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú",
year = "2023"
}
This study analyzes how cognitive biases influence business decision making. It focuses on the impact of the overconfidence bias in the decisions made by executives working in Peru, conditioned by the different levels of command and their belonging to the different strategic areas of the organization. The decisions made by executives respond to the behavior of an increasingly competitive economy with a higher level of uncertainty. The study proposes a conceptual framework that explains the decision-making process and how this process is influenced by the overconfidence bias, which, in turn, influences key aspects of the organization such as: investment, financing and risk. This is descriptive-quantitative research, using a convenience sampling, selecting 280 executives working in Peru under two criteria: a) that the decision-makers have at least three people in charge of them and, b) that they work in a private sector company. A 20-item survey was applied to collect sociodemographic information such as: age, sex, work experience, among others; company characteristics such as size and sales level; and aspects related to perception and business decision-making. IBM Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 27 (SPSS version 27) was used for data processing. The results obtained show that the executives incur in cognitive biases, since when making decisions, they mostly responded that: they are guided mainly by their experience, they are going to exceed the established objectives and they have full confidence in the outcome of their decisions. Likewise, more than half of the executives prioritize profitability over risk when making decisions, overestimating the probability of the desired result, showing that: the higher the “level of education“ or “work experience“, the greater the predisposition to underestimate risk. Finally, it was determined that the most influential variable in business decision making in aspects of investment, financing and risk is the “level of education“. In a complementary manner, when performing correlation analyses with the grouped variable “overconfidence“, it is evident that “level of education“ has a significant correlation (Spearman's coefficient 0.161**) with the overconfidence bias.
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