Title: Cross-country growth-oriented entrepreneurship: when is a performance-based culture effective?

Authors: Colin D. Reddy

Addresses: College of Business and Economics, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

Abstract: We pursue why performance-based cultural norms are rendered ineffective in stimulating a subset of growth-oriented entrepreneurship. We propose and test a midrange, contingency-based model receiving strong support in analysis of 267 country-year observations from 66 countries. Results show economic development complements performance-based cultural norms to increase the extent of a country's growth-oriented entrepreneurship; and this complementary effect appears only among those countries with high levels of regulatory simplicity. For policymakers targeting economic growth, our research suggests that policies should create a fertile environment for growth-oriented entrepreneurship to thrive on the established norms within their society. We advise against benchmarking possible approaches against other countries with high levels of growth-oriented entrepreneurship but very different established norms. We hope that our study captures the complexity of the impact of cultural norms on the levels of growth-oriented entrepreneurship among countries.

Keywords: growth-oriented entrepreneurship; cultural practice; institutions; economic development.

DOI: 10.1504/GBER.2024.142003

Global Business and Economics Review, 2024 Vol.31 No.4, pp.432 - 454

Received: 08 Jul 2022
Accepted: 21 Apr 2023
Published online: 07 Oct 2024 *

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