Abstract
This paper is a cross-national study testing a framework relating cultural descriptive norms to entrepreneurship in a sample of 40 nations. Based on data from the Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness project, we identify two higher-order dimensions of culture – socially supportive culture (SSC) and performance-based culture (PBC) – and relate them to entrepreneurship rates and associated supply-side and demand-side variables available from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. Findings provide strong support for a social capital/SSC and supply-side variable explanation of entrepreneurship rate. PBC predicts demand-side variables, such as opportunity existence and the quality of formal institutions to support entrepreneurship.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1347-1364 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Journal of International Business Studies |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue number | 8 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2010 |
Bibliographical note
This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Journal of international business studies. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Stephan, U., & Uhlaner, L. M. (2010). Performance-based vs socially supportive culture: A cross-national study of descriptive norms and entrepreneurship. Journal of international business studies, 41(8), 1347-1364 is available online at: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jibs/journal/v41/n8/full/jibs201014a.htmlKeywords
- comparative entrepreneurship
- national culture
- GLOBE
- descriptive norms
- institutional theory
- social capital