Abstract
We highlight the potential theoretical and empirical contributions that GLOBE dimensions of culturally endorsed leadership theories (CLTs) can make to advance entrepreneurship research. Theoretically, they occupy a unique position in the culture-entrepreneurship fit perspective in that they mediate the influence of cultural values on entrepreneurial behaviors. Empirically, they could be used in a number of ways in entrepreneurship research – either in OLS regressions that estimate the influence of CLTs on country-level aggregate rates of entrepreneurship or in multi-level analyses that aim to predict the influence of country-level CLTs on individual-level entrepreneurial behaviors (direct effects as well as cross-level moderation effects).
Highlights
The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) survey reports that significant variance in rates of entrepreneurship exist across countries, establishing the contextually embedded nature of entrepreneurial behaviors
We discuss various theories that are relevant to understand the influences of culturally endorsed leadership theories (CLTs) on entrepreneurial behaviors across cultures
The traditional organizational leadership theories that have remained largely limited to explaining leadership effectiveness of managers of business firms could be used in tandem with Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) CLTs to predict cross-cultural differences in entrepreneurial behaviors
Summary
The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) survey reports that significant variance in rates of entrepreneurship exist across countries, establishing the contextually embedded nature of entrepreneurial behaviors. Country-level factors could meaningfully account for this variance Identifying those factors becomes the central tenet of cross-cultural or cross-country comparative entrepreneurship research, making it distinct from general entrepreneurship research in that the focus is mainly on understanding entrepreneurial phenomena in different contexts. It offers the benefit of generalization or modification of existing theories as well as presenting newer avenues of inquiry for research and theory development (Alon & Rottig, 2013).
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