Regional Social Legitimacy of Entrepreneurship: Implications for Entrepreneurial Intention and Start-up Behaviour

By Ewald Kibler, Teemu Kautonen, Matthias Fink. 2014

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Kibler E., Kautonen T. and Fink M. Regional social legitimacy of entrepreneurship: implications for entrepreneurial intention and start-up behaviour, Regional Studies. A new understanding of the role of regional culture in the emergence of business start-up behaviour is developed. The focal construct is regional social legitimacy: the perception of the desirability and appropriateness of entrepreneurship in a region. The econometric analysis utilizes a combination of bespoke longitudinal survey data from 65 regions in Austria and Finland, and variables capturing regional socio-economic characteristics derived from official statistics. The study demonstrates that, and explains how, regional social legitimacy influences the relationships between individual entrepreneurial beliefs, intentions and start-up behaviour and how these interaction effects are conditioned by the socio-economic characteristics of the region.

Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Urban Studies

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Institutional support and women’s entrepreneurial self-efficacy (2017, background): “Consistent with previous studies (Hopp and Stephan, 2012; Kibler et al., 2014; M~ unoz and Kibler, 2016; Stephan and Uhlaner, 2010), this article demonstrates that informal institutional support positively predicts women’s self-confidence in entrepreneurial initiatives.”
Entrepreneurs’ human capital and growth aspirations: the moderating role of regional entrepreneurial culture (2019, background): “Huggins and Thompson (2016) acknowledge the importance of considering the legitimacy of entrepreneurship (Kibler et al. 2014) and the local”
Entrepreneurial role models, fear of failure, and institutional approval of entrepreneurship: a tale of two regions (2016, background): “Thus, in regions with a high approval legitimacy of entrepreneurship is high whereas it is low in low approval environments (Etzioni, 1987; Kibler et al., 2014).”
Industry structure, entrepreneurship, and culture: An empirical analysis using historical coalfields (2016, background): “In this respect, Kibler et al. (2014) developed the concept of regional social legitimacy, which is understood as a common perception, either positive or negative, of entrepreneurship.”
The Relational Organization of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (2017, background): “Academic entrepreneurs can take these opportunities to market, or they can spill over into existing startups (Shane, 2004; Krichhoff et al., 2007).”
An Analysis of the Determinants of Entrepreneurial Intentions among Students: A Romanian Case Study (2016, background): “However, entrepreneurial intentions, defined as a conscious state of mind that guides attention, experience and behavior towards a planned entrepreneurial action [13], play an important role in the development of the subsequent entrepreneurial activities [14–16].”
Regional knowledge, entrepreneurial culture, and innovative start-ups over time and space―an empirical investigation (2018, background): “Research has particularly highlighted the role of social acceptance of entrepreneurial behavior (Etzioni 1987; Kibler et al. 2014), or a regional entrepreneurship culture (Beugelsdijk 2007; Fritsch and Wyrwich 2014; 2017b).”
Resources and bridging: the role of spatial context in rural entrepreneurship (2018, background): “Yet, this does not necessarily happen to an equal extent in all rural areas (Kibler, Kautonen, and Fink 2014).”