Bloom where planted: Entrepreneurial catalyzers amidst weak institutions

Moulick, Abhisekh Ghosh; Pidduck, Robert J.; Busenitz, Lowell W.

doi:10.1016/j.jbvi.2019.e00127

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“…Cross-cultural experiences, then, are also influential for those discovering, enacting, evaluating or exploiting new venture ideas (Zahra et al, 2005). Despite longstanding consensus that there are broadly constructive linkages between international mobility and entrepreneurial activity in the aggregate (Fairlie and Lofstrom, 2015;Ghosh Moulick et al, 2019), entrepreneurship research that explicitly unpacks the unique roles of multicultural experiences as they pertain to individual entrepreneurs remains limited (e.g. Pidduck et al, 2020a;Tucker and Croom, 2021).…”

Section: Cross-cultural Experience and Entrepreneurs 203mentioning

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Entrepreneurial sensing capabilities: the stimulating role of cross-cultural experience

Pidduck

Zhang

2021

IJEBR

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PurposeDrawing on image theory, the authors investigate how and when cross-cultural experience cultivates two core entrepreneurial sensing capabilities: opportunity recognition and creative behavior.Design/methodology/approachThe authors develop and test a second-stage moderated mediation model across two studies. Study 1 consists of a sample of prospective entrepreneurs from the UK using perceptual scale measures (n = 153). Building on this, core findings are replicated using task-based measures on a sample of US participants (n = 342).FindingsResults show that cross-cultural experience is positively related to both entrepreneurial sensing capabilities through the mediating role of self-image fluidity. No support is found for the moderating role of regulatory focus orientations.Research limitations/implicationsThese findings contribute to the burgeoning literature on multicultural experience and initiating skills in nascent venturing by providing insight on the mechanisms and boundary conditions relevant for entrepreneurial capabilities to emerge.Practical implicationsThe results reinforce the need for educators, policymakers, and entrepreneurs to facilitate and encourage opportunities for cross-cultural and overseas experiences as they are influential for stimulating entrepreneurial skills.Originality/valuePositive linkages between international mobility and entrepreneurial activity are of continued interest, yet individual-level mechanisms that explain this have been limited. The authors find that exposure to foreign cultures is potent for entrepreneurship as it can stimulate flexibility and exploration of the self-image and break frames of reference. This fosters greater tendencies for opportunity recognition and creative behaviors.

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Entrepreneurial sensing capabilities: the stimulating role of cross-cultural experience

Pidduck

Zhang

2021

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“…This important body of knowledge does not explain, however, how formal entrepreneurial activity started to flourish around those weak institutions in many developing countries, including in Africa (cf., Ekekwe, 2016;George et al, 2016a;Ghosh Moulick et al, 2019).…”

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“…This body of evidence provides important insights into why weak and even hostile institutions lead African countries to lag in aggregated entrepreneurship statistics (e.g., "2019 Global Entrepreneurship Index" from the Global Entrepreneurship and Development Institute, GEDI;Ács, Szerb, Lafuente, & Márkus, 2019). 2 Unfortunately, it says little regarding the 'entrepreneurial zeitgeist', which is often reported as intensifying in many of these economies (Ghosh Moulick, Pidduck, & Busenitz, 2019). Ekekwe (2016), for example, highlights that "as one travels from Nairobi to Lagos and from Dakar to Kigali, a feeling of optimistic exuberance emerges… [for] a golden era of entrepreneurship anchored by local innovation."…”

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Entrepreneurial Workaround Practices in Severe Institutional Voids: Evidence From Kenya

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Cannatelli

Giudici

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Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

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Entrepreneurs in developing economies try to cope with weak or absent formal institutions—often referred to as “institutional voids”—by relying extensively on intermediary organizations such as business incubators and development organizations or informal institutions such as political, kinship, or family relationships. However, in many African countries, intermediary support is limited and informal institutions are also unreliable, adding risks and costs to doing business and increasing the severity of institutional voids in the surrounding ecosystem. We investigate the practices followed by 47 commercial entrepreneurs in Kenya to “work around” these severe institutional voids to achieve their goals of business creation and growth. We find that severe institutional voids stimulate the hybridization of goals to include social value creation, create a need for a more strategic orchestration of business relationships, and motivate entrepreneurs to proactively cross-brace the institutional infrastructure around them. We contribute by unveiling the important role of entrepreneurs as microinstitutional agents in developing economies and by detailing how commercial and social goals become intertwined in the context of African entrepreneurship.

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“…Although many countries have improved their economic freedom in the last couple of decades, the lack of economic freedom still appears to be a problem. Moulick, Pidduck, and Busenitz (2019) cites examples of how even in China, one of fastest growing emerging economies, obtaining a license to start some types of business can be difficult.…”

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Weathering the Storm: How Foreign Aid and Institutions Affect Entrepreneurship Activity Following Natural Disasters

Boudreaux

Jha

2021

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

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This study examines how foreign aid and institutions affect entrepreneurship activity following natural disasters. We use insights from the entrepreneurship, development, and institutions literature to develop a model of entrepreneurship activity in the aftermath of natural disasters. First, we hypothesize the effect of natural disasters on entrepreneurship activity depends on the amount of foreign aid received. Second, we hypothesize that natural disasters and foreign aid either encourages or discourages entrepreneurship activity depending on two important institutional conditions: the quality of government and economic freedom. The findings from our panel of 85 countries from 2006 to 2016 indicate that natural disasters are negatively associated with entrepreneurship activity, but both foreign aid and economic freedom attenuate this effect. In addition, we observe that foreign aid is positively associated with entrepreneurship activity but only in countries with high quality government. Hence, we conclude that the effect of natural disasters on entrepreneurship depends crucially on the quality of government, economic freedom, and foreign aid. Our findings provide new insights into how natural disasters and foreign aid affect entrepreneurship and highlight the important role of the institutional context.

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Bloom where planted: Entrepreneurial catalyzers amidst weak institutions

Cited by 18 publications

References 45 publications

Entrepreneurial sensing capabilities: the stimulating role of cross-cultural experience

Entrepreneurial sensing capabilities: the stimulating role of cross-cultural experience

Entrepreneurial Workaround Practices in Severe Institutional Voids: Evidence From Kenya

Weathering the Storm: How Foreign Aid and Institutions Affect Entrepreneurship Activity Following Natural Disasters

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