INDIVIDUAL AND CONTEXTUAL DETERMINANTS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP: AN INTERNATIONAL COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

Models of entrepreneurial behavior focus usually on individual level factors yet a great deal of beginning and running a business depends on the economic, social and institutional environment. Our analysis uses data from the 2008 European Social Survey to assess the weight of country-level character...

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Published inAnalele Universităţii din Oradea. Ştiinţe economice Vol. 1; no. 2; pp. 107 - 110
Main Authors Hatos Adrian, Hatos Roxana
Format Journal Article
LanguageGerman
Published University of Oradea 01.12.2010
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comparative analysis
contextual factors
entrepreneurial behavior
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Summary:Models of entrepreneurial behavior focus usually on individual level factors yet a great deal of beginning and running a business depends on the economic, social and institutional environment. Our analysis uses data from the 2008 European Social Survey to assess the weight of country-level characteristics in explaining individual entrepreneurship measured as self-employment of business ownership. The article starts with a literature review which puts the bases of our hypotheses. The results describe cross country comparisons of entrepreneurship rates, individual and country-level regressions of entrepreneurship. As expected, there are large differences between countries with respect to rates of entrepreneurship. A great part of this variance can be accounted for by the division between the former socialist countries and the rest and by levels of urbanization.
ISSN:1222-569X
1582-5450