The Social Dimension of Entrepreneurship: the Role of Regional Social Effects

Bonaventura, Luigi; Caserta, Maurizio

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“…Although, in contrast to the prevailing view in the liability of foreignness literature, the 'making' of newer digitalised firms that are born-global is most likely in the domestic context given that business is often conducted online. This is the result of a constellation of competencies from primarily tacit knowledge and skills (McDougall Shane and Oviatt 1994) which are commonly part of-and borne from-the (firm and) entrepreneurs' local environment (Bonaventura and Caserta 2012;Drakopoulou Dodd and Hynes 2012). Thus, the very foundations of entrepreneurial activity are based upon cultural underpinnings.…”

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“…Social capital in the form of communication, dialogue and information exchange is intrinsically intertwined as a valuable personality skill that translates into entrepreneurial competitive advantage (Bonaventura and Caserta 2012;Chuang Chen and Lin 2016;Leslie and Russell 2006;McKeever Anderson and Jack 2014) by relating-and comparing-to the 'other' (Fligstein 1997). Transferrable over space, social skills are manifested in the individuals who act as representatives of the firm (see Chiang and Yang 2014;Davidsson and Honig 2003;Frank et al 2007) through language in all its guises.…”

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Language ability and entrepreneurship education: Necessary skills for Europe’s start-ups?

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Language ability and entrepreneurial education are seen as essential resources for start-ups operating in intensified landscapes of internationalisation and globalisation. Deemed as the necessary skills for corporate effectiveness vis-à-vis rivals, this paper responds to calls for increased understandings of cultural components as vital to entrepreneurship and the product of institutional forces. Thus, it explores (a) the impact language ability has on start-up expansion; (b) the perceptions of international relations as based on language ability as a tool for cross-cultural communication; and (c) the role of educational context from the entrepreneurs' perspective. Based on interviews from European online start-ups across three discrete contexts-Finland, Portugal and Sweden-it concludes that contextual trends regarding language and education are founded upon the cultural-cognitive and normative pillars of institutionalisation. Further, by combining actor-context perspectives, it poses that language ability and education are resources borne from the domestic environment which positively moderate the start-up's international success. Nevertheless, the notion of learnt entrepreneurship remains contested. Taken together, this study contributes by offering deeper insight into the role of context on entrepreneurial tendencies by combining resource and institutional perspectives. J Int Entrep (2018) Second abstract-Spanish La competencia y habilidad lingüística se están convirtiendo en requisitos indispensables para las nuevas empresas que operan en entornos de creciente demanda de internacionalización y globalización. Consideradas como necesarias para asegurar el éxito inicial y ventaja competitiva, este manuscrito se centra en el entendimiento de la conciencia cultural, la capacidad lingüística y la educación como pilares básicos para la iniciativa empresarial. Los objetivos son: a) explorar el impacto de la competencia lingüística en los planes de expansión inicial y futuros; b) investigar la percepción de las relaciones internacionales basadas en la capacidad lingüística como herramienta de comunicación intercultural; y c) definir el rol del entorno en la adquisición de habilidades lingüísticas y comunicativas desde la perspectiva del emprendedor. Basado en entrevistas a nueve nuevas firmas tecnológicas ubicadas en Finlandia, Portugal y Suecia, el estudio muestra diferentes tendencias sobre el rol de las habilidades lingüísticas y culturales como fuente de ventaja competitiva. Sin embargo, la idea de iniciativa empresarial como algo que se puede aprender o enseñar continua bajo debate, destacando la necesidad de futuros estudios sobre la importancia de la educación empresarial como entorno-dependiente. Summary HighlightsContributions: This study contributes to international entrepreneurship literature by increasing understandings of the role of education and language (the measureable components of culture) for start-up (continued) success. It also contributes by integrating institutional and resource-ba...

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“…But the present results suggest that these efforts should not simply be broad-spectrum approaches to encouraging entrepreneurial culture at national or regional levels. Rather, they should seek to understand the range and prevalence of attitudes present in the ecosystem, and the occupational reward structures they engender (Bonaventura & Caserta, 2012), which may have a stronger and more direct influence on potential entrepreneurs.…”

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“…Such differences cannot be fully explained by small differences in objective circumstances. Subjective factors, such as connections between entrepreneurship and the social context (Bonaventura & Caserta, 2012;Lyons, Alter, Audretsch, & Augustine, 2012), may be exerting significant additional influence.…”

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Refining national culture and entrepreneurship: the role of subcultural variation

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2019

J Glob Entrepr Res

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This study investigates attitudes towards entrepreneurship within a national culture. The effects of culture represent the most significant and unexplored factor in current theories of entrepreneurial intentions. The study uses Q methodology to conduct a hybrid qualitative and quantitative exploration of the attitudes about entrepreneurship that are present within the cultural discourse. Within one region of Canada, three distinct viewpoints are discovered which share many attitudes about entrepreneurship, but which also feature clear differences in their potential to positively or negative influence beliefs and attitudes of individuals. This study contributes to a theory by demonstrating that culture is multidimensional and heterogeneous in the way that broad constructs of "national culture" are translated into influences on individual traits and characteristics.

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“…The ability to extract benefits from their contacts fulfils any shortfalls youth may experience in their access to information, capital or skills necessary for a business venture (Aldrich and Zimmer, 1986;Aldrich et al, 1991;Hansen, 1995). Network contacts may provide new or different ideas and world views that broaden the opportunity framework for new ventures (Aldrich and Zimmer, 1986;Aldrich et al, 1998;Freitag, 2006;Maloney and Rossteutscher, 2007;Bonaventura and Caserta, 2012). Having role models and other friends who are entrepreneurs are reported to be correlated with higher entrepreneurial inclination (Collins & Moore, 1970;Cooper & Dunkelberg, 1984;Davidsson and Honig, 2003;Mahadea et al, 2011;Sharma & Madan, 2014).…”

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Family, society and the individual: determinants of entrepreneurial attitudes among youth in Chennai, South India

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High rates of youth unemployment across the world have captured the attention of many world organizations and other policy makers. One policy solution that has been proposed to curb these high rates is encouraging youth entrepreneurship. In this paper, we examine the formation of attitudes that are favorable to entrepreneurship using data from 185 business students in South India. We adopt an approach that tests the relative efficacy of two principal factors in the formation of entrepreneurial attitude, i.e., stocks of youth human/social capital and a series of personality traits. Results from a probit model suggest that the youth's prior labor market experience, the social capital that youth have accumulated through volunteering, and the social connections that parents have made are all highly predictive of pro-entrepreneurial attitudes; personality traits exert less importance. Implications for these findings are discussed for the creation of strategies that can stimulate entrepreneurship among youth as one way to combat high rates of youth unemployment.

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The Social Dimension of Entrepreneurship: the Role of Regional Social Effects

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Language ability and entrepreneurship education: Necessary skills for Europe’s start-ups?

Language ability and entrepreneurship education: Necessary skills for Europe’s start-ups?

Refining national culture and entrepreneurship: the role of subcultural variation

Family, society and the individual: determinants of entrepreneurial attitudes among youth in Chennai, South India

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