Abstract
What is an entrepreneurial culture? In this paper we review and critique this oft used but incompletely understood concept. Despite decades of application in the strategic management, innovation, and entrepreneurship literature from both a research and practitioner perspective, much about this organizational culture concept remains under-specified. With the intention of joining, provoking, and ultimately contributing to the contemporary conversation on entrepreneurial culture, we adopt a theoretical construct development framework to address the equivocal treatment of this concept's definitions, characteristics, attributes, and structure. We present a multi- dimensional model of entrepreneurial culture that integrates key social, cognitive, and behavioural elements from the broader entrepreneurship field. Our paper concludes with an examination of relevant future research endeavours exploring this conceptualization, developing multi-level scales and models, and building out the nomological network. Collectively, this work explores and develops this important yet largely descriptive concept into a theoretical construct suitable for incorporation into research models.
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