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Locus Of Control And Entrepreneurship: A Three-Country Comparative Study

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, 1989

Using the locus of control construct, entrepreneurs were compared with managers and MBAs in three European countries. The data points out that Latins are significantly more internal than people from more Northern cultures, i.e., French entrepreneurs and managers have lower scores on the locus of control scale than those from the United Kingdom and Germany. No significant differences were found between the Germans and the British in each of the three occupational roles. The French MBAs had significantly lower scores than the British MBAs.

Striving for Entrepreneurial Autonomy: A Comparison of Russia and the Netherlands

Management and Organization Review

Autonomy is a primary motive, as well as source of satisfaction, for those who start and run their own business. Autonomy is not inherent to business ownership – owner/founders must make concentrated efforts to achieve and maintain autonomy. This study aims to increase our understanding of autonomy by investigating how it is experienced, the factors that affect it, and the actions that business owners take to attain and retain it. We study these topics in the setting of an emerging market – Russia – and compare the outcomes with a similar study conducted in the Netherlands. Our cross-cultural comparison reveals that the way autonomy is experienced and attained can be viewed as an expression of survival values in Russia and of self-expression values in the Netherlands. We posit an underlying structural similarity by theorizing the level of experienced entrepreneurial autonomy to be the outcome of the balance of power and dependencies.

Socio-Cultural Practices and Restrictions of Entrepreneurship in Transition Russia

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000

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Entrepreneurship: first results from Russia

2004

Social scientists studying the determinants of entrepreneurship have emphasized three distinct perspectives: the role of institutions, the role of social networks and the role of personal characteristics. We conduct a survey from five large developing and transition economies to better understand entrepreneurship in view of these three pers pectives. Using data from a pilot study with over 2,000 interviews in 7 cities across Russia, we find evidence for these three sets of variables but with a particularly strong effect of social networks: those individuals whose relatives and childhood frie nds are entrepreneurs are more likely to be entrepreneurs.

Entrepreneurial intentions in post-Soviet economies

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 2014

In the present paper we apply the theory of planned behaviour and personal initiative taking literature to explore the entrepreneurial intentions of 266 female and 161 male respondents in Russia and Ukraine. Russia and Ukraine are similar in many ways. Both countries experienced 70 years of the Soviet regime, under which entrepreneurship was illegal. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, both nations faced difficulties in economic development that they have since mainly overcome. In this study, we want to explore entrepreneurial intentions of males and females in these two neighboring countries and find out antecedents of entrepreneurial intentions. Our findings show that intensity ofentrepreneurial intentions reported by Ukrainian students are higher than intentions reported by their Russian counterparts. We also found that gender was not a significant variable explaining entrepreneurial intentions. We also tested several interaction variables between gender and TPB variables as well as personal initiative taking on entrepreneurial intentions. We discuss the possible reasons for these findings and their implications for future research. The results from the study will interest policy-makers, managers of higher education institutions and practitioners in Russia and Ukraine.

Entrepreneurship: First Results from Russia - eScholarship

2004

Social scientists studying the determinants of entrepreneurship have emphasized three distinct perspectives: the role of institutions, the role of social networks and the role of personal characteristics. We conduct a survey from five large developing and transition economies to better understand entrepreneurship in view of these three pers pectives. Using data from a pilot study with over 2,000 interviews in 7 cities across Russia, we find evidence for these three sets of variables but with a particularly strong effect of social networks: those individuals whose relatives and childhood frie nds are entrepreneurs are more likely to be entrepreneurs.

Attitude to Entrepreneurship in Russia: Three-Dimensional Institutional Approach

Advances in Systems Science and Applications, 2017

This paper aims to analyze the impediments to the development of entrepreneurship in Russia from the institutional perspective. To describe the institutional environment we use a concept of a three-dimensional institutional profile which classifies the institutions into three types: regulatory, cognitive and normative. These three dimensions imply three bases of legitimacy: entrepreneurship can be legitimized if it conforms to legal requirements (regulatory dimension), if it is seen as legitimate through a common frame of reference (cognitive dimension) and if it conforms to the existent moral base (normative dimension). We argue that one of the impediments to entrepreneurship development in Russia is that it is not seen as legitimate enough by the society at large. We explore the foundations for this through the regulatory dimension (the dynamic of the legal legitimation of entrepreneurial activity from the Soviet epoch to the present times), in the cognitive dimension (the stereotype of entrepreneur and its origins), and in the normative dimension (basic assumptions which relate to the fundamental moral dimensions of entrepreneurial activity: assumptions about money, wealth, and work).

Development and validation of a locus of control scale for the entrepreneurship domain

Small Business Economics, 2012

Locus of control has been extensively examined in entrepreneurship research, but with mixed results. This may be due to measurement issues, such as the widespread use of general locus of control scale, which is not domain specific. Not surprisingly, Rotter's scale has been shown to be multidimensional, including personal efficacy. When the first Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics (PSED I) was constructed in the late 1990s, a measure of locus of control was included. Unfortunately, this scale was also multidimensional. Thus, measurement of the construct may be problematic. Because locus of control continues to be important in organizational research, where it has been found to influence intentions, motivation, satisfaction, and performance, we examined the PSED I dataset to determine whether we could develop a more robust measure after the fact. To this end, we constructed a unidimensional locus of control scale using the sample of nascent entrepreneurs in the PSED I dataset and validated the scale using two additional samples.