Performance-based vs socially supportive culture: A cross-national study of descriptive norms and entrepreneurship

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Stephan, Ute; Uhlaner, Lorraine M.
• 署名单位: KU Leuven; Universite Catholique de Lille; EDHEC Business School
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2506
• DOI: 10.1057/jibs.2010.14
• 发表日期: 2010
• 页码: 1347-1364
• 关键词: comparative entrepreneurship; NATIONAL CULTURE; GLOBE; descriptive norms; INSTITUTIONAL THEORY; Social capital

摘要

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. Journal of International Business Studies (2010) 41, 1347-1364. doi:10.1057/jibs.2010.14