Rethinking Entrepreneurship: Understanding Its Complexity, Scope and Divergent Practices
Purpose – This conceptual paper reviews selected entrepreneurship literature and explores why entrepreneurship levels are low among ethnic groups in developing countries and examines the role of factors that determine graduate students’ decisions to start up own businesses in order to contribute to a better understanding of the complexity, scope and divergent practices of entrepreneurship in developing countries. Sociocultural theories are applied as internal factors such as motivation and other personal characteristics are explored together with external factors such as culture, ethnicity, dependence on government, and uncertainty in economic growth. The paper seeks to fundamentally rethink entrepreneurship, fill several gaps in knowledge about entrepreneurship in developing countries, provide practical insights, highlight policy implications, and thus suggest future research directions. Design/methodology/approach – The paper explains the implications for research and practice of the work previously undertaken in selected developing countries while providing insights and directions for future research on entrepreneurship. Findings – This paper suggests that the definition and conceptual framework of entrepreneurship in developing countries as well as its theoretical implications must be reconsidered. In this context, entrepreneurship’s interface with economic, sociocultural, and psychological literatures is discussed. Originality/value – Limited research in the field has focused on the implications of previous research. This paper aims to bring together what has been done previously and provide directions for future study.
Entrepreneurship distinctions environmental differences sociocultural variables ethnicity dependence on government public policy reforms
Wayne Soverall
国际会议
上海
英文
1-29
2012-05-25（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）