Cultural Influences on Entrepreneurial Orientation: The Impact of National Culture on Risk Taking and Proactiveness in SMEs

By Patrick M. Kreiser, Louis Marino, P. Dickson, K. Weaver. 2010

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

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Risk management capability building in SMEs: A social capital perspective (2013, background): “…in SMEs in other developing countries, but obviously national context needs to be taken into account as there are significant differences in the levels of risk-taking and proactiveness between countries owing to institutional environment and national culture attributes (Kreiser et al., 2010).”
Macro-level determinants of formal entrepreneurship versus informal entrepreneurship (2014, neutral): “Other studies (Kreiser et al., 2010; McGrath et al., 1992) reveal that performance-based culture hampers entrepreneurial orientation.”
Entrepreneurship culture, knowledge spillovers and the growth of regions (2018, background): “Kreiser et al. (2010) finds that managers in small firms in countries with high uncertainty avoidance and high power distance, two cultural characteristics according to Hofstede (2001), have less proactiveness and risk taking.”
How Does Culture Influence Corporate Risk-Taking? (2012, positive): “First, individualistic managers are free to make risky decisions using their own judgment (Kreiser et al. (2010)), and are motivated to stand out from other managers to demonstrate their autonomy. This leads to their use of decision rules that overweight risky payoffs, relative to less individualist”
Does job crafting always lead to employee well-being and performance? Meta-analytical evidence on the moderating role of societal culture (2020, background): “In contrast, in less collectivistic cultures, proactive behaviors aimed at environmental change are suggested to be less effective (Kreiser et al., 2010) because employees are less able to aggregate and collectively marshal the resources necessary to pursue environmental opportunities (Morris et…”
Entrepreneurship, Small Business and Public Policy Levers (2011, positive): “Some societies simply value competition and individual achievement more than others do (Kreiser et al. 2010; Inglehart and Wetzel 2005).”