Socio-cultural influences on Indian entrepreneurs: The need for appropriate structural interventions

Family embeddedness and entrepreneurship experience: a study of Indian migrant women entrepreneurs in Australia

“…A large body of literature now recognizes the effect of family on work domains, illustrating how family can influence entrepreneurship through opportunity emergence and recognition, the decision to set up a new venture and access to resources. Family as a non-economic actor is increasingly being acknowledged as a 'critical factor in entrepreneurial activity in emerging economies' (Habbershon and pistrui 2002;Sabah, Carsrud, and Kocak 2014, 306), and has received much attention in the context of family businesses (Chirico and Bau 2014;Sabah, Carsrud, and Kocak 2014) and women's entrepreneurship (Rouse and Kitching 2006;Shivani, Mukherjee, and Sharan 2006); however, its implications for MWEs have not been sufficiently explored. One of the dominant characteristics of Indian culture is the importance placed on family as a central social unit and institution.…”

“…notably, some scholars argue joint family to be a hindrance for entrepreneurial activities (tripathi 1984) while others have found joint family to facilitate entrepreneurship (Shivani, Mukherjee, and Sharan 2006). Rouse and Kitching (2006) suggest that the family status of women entrepreneurs is a critical variable in research, as child-rearing problems contributed largely to the failure of their start-up businesses.…”

The emergence of biosphere entrepreneurship: are social and business entrepreneurship obsolete?

“…Within entrepreneurship research, this framework is unsuitably called the environmental framework because it refers to factors in the surrounding context (Alvarez and Urbano, 2012;Dubini, 1987;Edelman and Yli-Renko, 2010;Hayton et al, 2002;Nguyen et al, 2014;York and Venkataraman, 2010). But for reasons of clarity vis-à-vis the present topic, we will call it the socio-cultural framework, as many have done (Begley and Tan, 2001;Majidand Yaqun, 2016;Shivani et al, 2006;Thornton et al, 2011;Toledano and Ribeiro-Soriano, 2011).…”

“…The question thus arises whether there are socio-cultural factors that influence the emergence of biosphere entrepreneurs. While work is being done on the impact of socio-cultural factors on social entrepreneurs (Koe et al, 2012;Majid and Koe, 2012;Shivani et al, 2006;Thornton et al, 2011), nothing has yet been written on the impact of these factors on biosphere entrepreneurs.…”

Chinese Culture and Its Potential Influence on Entrepreneurship

“…However, other social scientists later became interested in the issue. For example, recently, historians, psychologists, and anthropologists examined how different institutions and cultural values affect entrepreneurial outcomes, what are the typical personality traits of an entrepreneur, and whether there are gender differences in entrepreneurship (Brandstäter, 2011;Chell, Haworth, & Brearley, 1991;Holt, 1997;Oxfeld, 1992;Pedersen, 1988;Shivani, Mukherjee, & Sharan, 2006;Snavely, Miassoedov, & McNeilly, 1998).…”