Entrepreneurial role models, fear of failure, and institutional approval of entrepreneurship: a tale of two regions

Role and impact of the environment on entrepreneurial learning

“…Finally, Wyrwich, Stuetzer, and Sternberg (2016) deal more closely with the influence of the environment on learning initiatives by looking at role models. The writers focus more specifically on the role played by the institutional context in determining the effectiveness of using role models in entrepreneurship education.…”

“…Environment considered on a macro-level Authors influence of an incentivizing regional policy motoyama and Knowlton (2016) influence of local context on development of local entrepreneurial communities and learning of entrepreneurial process Dodd and hynes (2012) relationship between environmental hostility and participative learning of the entrepreneurial process (based on amount of information available) lévesque, minniti, and shepherd (2009) relations between the specificity of the cultural context and efficiency of the entrepreneurial learning process mosakowski, Calic, and Christopher Earley (2013) Environment limited to university and stakeholders influence of consultative advice from entrepreneurship centres Zahra, newey, and shaver (2011) Effect of 'service learning ' Flannery and pragman (2010), mcCrea (2010), litzky, godshalk, and Walton-Bongers (2010) interactions between local businesses, schools and teachers lindh and thorgren (2016) Environment seen through influence of role models role played by institutional context in effectiveness of role models Wyrwich, stuetzer, and sternberg (2016) environment and their type of influence; (2) the programmes, methods, and pedagogical tools considered as transmitters of influence from the environment on individual learning; (3) the environment defined more generally as a context directly influencing the individual learning process.…”

“…In the literature review presented in the previous section, role models were studied from the angle of the relationship between their effectiveness and the institutional context (Wyrwich, Stuetzer, and Sternberg 2016). The scientific direction of this contribution also helps the observation and analysis of the effects of the influence of role models on entrepreneurship learning initiatives.…”

Socio-cultural factors and the entrepreneurship of youths in rural regions

“…According to Landier, entrepreneurs fear social stigma if they do not achieve the expected business success. Other academics have also found this factor to be influential on entrepreneurial activity (Busenitz, Gomez, & Spencer, 2000;Brochaus, 1980;Herron & Sapienza, 1992;Sitkin & Pablo, 1992;Wennberg, Pathak, & Autio, 2013;Wyrwich, Stuetzer, & Sternberg, 2016).…”

The influence of entrepreneurs’ social referents on start-up size

“…The former states that individuals are influenced by direct ties to those with whom they share more interpersonal connections (Shah 1998). In other words, people usually tend to identify themselves with others sharing their beliefs, values, and attitudes (Byrne 1971), such as parents or relatives (Bosma et al 2012;Chlosta et al 2012;Lindquist et al 2015), and peers or colleagues (Nanda and Sørensen 2010;Wyrwich et al 2015). On the other hand, structural equivalent research states that people are influenced by others occupying a similar position or role in a network (Kulik and Ambrose 1992;Shah 1998;Sluss and Ashforth 2008).…”