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The Individualistic View Of Culture And The Nascent Entrepreneurship: An Examination Of Schwartz’S Cultural Values

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  • ABDALLAH ALSAAD

    (School of Business, Jadara University, 733, Irbid, Jordan)

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The paper examines the impact of individual culture orientations on the nascent entrepreneurship at the individual level. The cultural orientations investigated in this study were based on Schwartz’s values model. Using data from World Value Survey collected from seven countries (n=6267), we investigate the direct effect of Open to Change, Self-enhancement, Conservation and Self-transcendence values on nascent entrepreneurship. The results show that the Open to Change values, including Stimulation and Self-direction values, significantly and positively affect nascent entrepreneurship. Only one of the Self-enhancement values has a positive effect on nascent entrepreneurship — the Power value. Meanwhile, Conservation values, including Tradition and Security, negatively and significantly affect the nascent entrepreneurship. Finally, the results show no support for the association between Self-transcendence values and nascent entrepreneurship. Our findings highlight that some values are more conducive to driving or inhibiting nascent entrepreneurship. Investigating the effect of individual cultural orientations on nascent entrepreneurship in the lens of personal values benefits us to comprehend individual motivations toward entrepreneurship, and will light many features of entrepreneurship behavior at the individual level and within and across cultures.

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  • Abdallah Alsaad, 2018. "The Individualistic View Of Culture And The Nascent Entrepreneurship: An Examination Of Schwartz’S Cultural Values," Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 23(04), pages 1-14, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:jdexxx:v:23:y:2018:i:04:n:s1084946718500267
    DOI: 10.1142/S1084946718500267
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