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Entrepreneurship and Culture

  • Explores the relationship between entrepreneurship and cultural features from an individual, regional, and transnational perspective

  • Works with case studies and econometric analysis

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
  2. Culture and the Individual Entrepreneur

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 10-10
    2. Introducing Entrepreneurship and Culture

      • Andreas Freytag, Roy Thurik
      Pages 1-8
    3. Prior Knowledge and Entrepreneurial Innovative Success

      • Uwe Cantner, Maximilian Goethner, Andreas Meder
      Pages 79-94
  3. Regional Cultural Aspects and the Entrepreneur

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 96-96
  4. Regional cultural aspects and the entrepreneur

  5. Transnational Cultural Differences

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 156-156
    2. Entrepreneurship and its Determinants in a Cross-Country Setting

      • Andreas Freytag, Roy Thurik
      Pages 157-170
    3. Scenario-Based Scales Measuring Cultural Orientations of Business Owners

      • Christine König, Holger Steinmetz, Michael Frese, Andreas Rauch, Zhong-Ming Wang
      Pages 171-200
    4. Economic Freedom and Entrepreneurial Activity: Some Cross-Country Evidence

      • Christian Bjørnskov, Nicolai Foss
      Pages 201-225
    5. Entrepreneurial Culture and its Effect on the Rate of Nascent Entrepreneurship

      • Kashifa Suddle, Sjoerd Beugelsdijk, Sander Wennekers
      Pages 227-244
  6. Development Over Time

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 270-270
    2. Uncertainty Avoidance and the Rate of Business Ownership Across 21 OECD Countries, 1976–2004

      • Sander Wennekers, Roy Thurik, André van Stel, Niels Noorderhaven
      Pages 271-299

About this book

The book is an innovative compilation of papers that explore the relationship between cultural features and entrepreneurship. The relative stability of differences in entrepreneurial activity across countries suggests that other than economic factors are at play. The contributions to this edited volume deal with the foundations of entrepreneurship and with the effects of different cultural settings on the incidence and success of entrepreneurs. Topics are individual decision making in a cultural context, regional aspects of entrepreneurship, cross-country differences, and the influence of culture on entrepreneurial activity.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Fak. Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Jena, Jena, Germany

    Andreas Freytag

  • Econometrisch Instituut, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands

    Roy Thurik

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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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