Cultural norms & business start-ups: The impact of national values on opportunity and necessity entrepreneurs

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作者
Hechavarria D.M. [1 ]
Reynolds P.D. [2 ]
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[1] Department of Management, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, 2925 Campus Green Drive
[2] School of Public Policy, Center for Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, George Mason University, Arlington
关键词
Cultural values; Global Entrepreneurship Monitor; Nascent entrepreneurship; Necessity; Opportunity; World Values Survey;
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10.1007/s11365-009-0115-6
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It has long been known that the level of entrepreneurship, indicated as the percentage of incorporated and unincorporated nascent businesses relative to the labor force differs strongly across countries. This variance is related to differences in levels of economic development (Wennekers et al. 2005), but also to diverging demographic, cultural, and institutional characteristics (Acs and Armington 2004; Busenitiz et al. 2000; Fusari 1996; Karlsson and Duhlberg 2003; Rocha 2004; Thurik et al. 2006; Wong et al. 2005). Incorporating an institutional perspective, the aim of this research is to test if culture, operationalized through the World Values Survey (WVS) data, is a significant factor in predicting opportunity and necessity entrepreneurship rates at the country level. Opportunity and necessity entrepreneurship rates will be averaged from the 2001 to 2003 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) and aggregated for 38 countries in this cross-sectional analysis. © Springer Science + Business Media, LLC 2009.
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页码:417 / 437
页数:20
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