Postmaterialism influencing total entrepreneurial activity across nations

By L. Uhlaner, Roy Thurik. 2006

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Institutions, Latent Entrepreneurship, and Self–Employment: An International Comparison (2012, background): “Uhlaner and Thurik (2007) find a negative relationship between entrepreneurship and postmaterialism, defined as “the transformation in many countries from a culture dominated by materialistic-oriented individuals to a society in which an increasing proportion of the population favors…”
Greasing the wheels of entrepreneurship (2007, background): “Uhlaner and Thurik (2007), to the contrary, find entrepreneurial activity to decline with secondary education, but to increase with tertiary education.”
Local entrepreneurial resilience and culture: the role of social values in fostering economic recovery (2015, background): “The first route considers the situation where a community culture fosters the development of individual characteristics associated with a higher probability of engaging in entrepreneurship (Davidsson, 1995; Uhlaner and Thurik, 2007).”
The Prevalence and Determinants of Social Entrepreneurship at the Macro Level (2016, background): “With respect to regular entrepreneurship, Uhlaner and Thurik (2007) find that countries that are characterized by less materialistic values tend to have a lower incidence of entrepreneurial entry.”
Institutions and social entrepreneurship: The role of institutional voids, institutional support, and institutional configurations (2014, methodology): “…(Bekkers, 2005; Franzen & Meyer, 2010; Moors, 2007), and also in entrepreneurship (Uhlaner & Thurik, 2007).3 Researchers have found that postmaterialism is highly stable and that it changes primarily through intergenerational replacement and socialization rather than through intra-individual value…”
Macro-level determinants of formal entrepreneurship versus informal entrepreneurship (2014, background): “…and independent action, placing a higher value on individual accomplishments, nurturing assertiveness and goal achievement, and offering more opportunities for individual success (Hofstede, 1980; McGrath et al., 1992; Morris et al., 1993; Mueller and Thomas, 2000; Uhlaner and Thurik, 2007).”
Determinants of entrepreneurial engagement levels in Europe and the US (2008, background): “In a recent series of studies some cultural drivers of entrepreneurship have been investigated: post-materialism in Uhlaner and Thurik (2007), dissatisfaction in Noorderhaven, Wennekers, Thurik and van Stel (2004) and uncertainty avoidance in Wennekers, Thurik, van Stel and Noorderhaven (2007).”
Entrepreneurship, Evolution and Geography (2009, background): “Culture is a property of groups, and it seems that especially national (Uhlaner and Thurik 2007), and to a lesser degree regional cultures (Davidsson and Wiklund 1997) have significant effects on new firm formation.”
Entrepreneurship and its determinants in a cross-country setting (2007, methodology): “Second, Uhlaner and Thurik (2007) focus on post-materialism as a source for entrepreneurship using Inglehart’s four item post-materialism index.”
A theoretical grounding and test of the GEM model (2008, background): “…associations of, e.g., Hofstede‟s (1980) scales of culture and entrepreneurial ac- - 17 - tivities (Hayton et al., 2002; Hofstede et al., 2003; Uhlaner and Thurik, 2007), but the results of attempts to date to measure the effect of national culture on entrepreneurial activity using…”
The influence of socio-cultural environments on the performance of nascent entrepreneurs: Community culture, motivation, self-efficacy and start-up success (2012, background): “…& Stephan, 2012 27 research which used culture scores from existing data bases and merged these with countrylevel prevalence rates of entrepreneurship – neglecting for the most part individual-level antecedents (e.g. Stephan and Uhlaner 2010; Uhlaner and Thurik 2007; Wennekers et al. 2007).”
Institutions and the prevalence of nonstandard employment (2015, background): “, 2004), as does the prevalence of postmaterialist values and a country’s postcommunist past (Freytag and Thurik, 2007; Uhlaner and Thurik, 2007).”
Development and Cross–Cultural Application of a Specific Instrument to Measure Entrepreneurial Intentions (2009, methodology): “It might be expected that new startup attempts would correspond more closely to ‘integrated’ entrepreneurial efforts, while ‘dissatisfied’ business owners would remain self-employed for a long period (Uhlaner & Thurik, 2007).”