You may find interesting this book:

Ács, Z. J., & Audretsch, D. B. (Eds.). (2010). Handbook on Entrepreneurship Research. New York: Springer.

Entrepreneurship may be considered from numerous perspectives - the identification and exploitation of opportunities (Corbett 2005; Wempe 2005; Ardichvili et al 2003; Eckhardt and Shane 2003). Dubin’s (1978) theory building framework outlines the antecedents for the opportunity identification process as being personality traits, social networks, and prior knowledge which together form entrepreneurial alertness to business opportunities. Also, the psychology and traits of the entrepreneur have been considered extensively giving rise to work focusing on cognition and learning (Corbett 2005; Zahra et al 2005 ).

Keep a look out for the forthcoming G. McElwee and R. Smith (eds) Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship Research, Volume V

You may want to review Hofstede work. (use this link for a quick intro: http://geert-hofstede.com/

But also have a look into this book of Cato Institute: How much does culture matter? 

the first one is a much more specific viewpoint while the last will give you a broader view to react (either in favor or not).

Good luck

Hi,

you may find this paper intersting. Good luck!

Lounsbury, M. and Glynn, M. A. (2001), Cultural entrepreneurship: stories, legitimacy, and the acquisition of resources. Strat. Mgmt. J., 22: 545–564. doi: 10.1002/smj.188

You might want to get a copy of Huntington and Harrison (eds), (2000), Culture matters: How values shape human progress. The book has some good chapters to get a grip on your topic. Available on Amazon.

Hoselitz theory and Stokeis theory.. These theory discuss the socio cultural impact on entrepreneurship.. hope this will be useful.

Dear Shyamala,

Yes, I have written a paper on the same subject. You have to adopt North (1991) and Williamson (2000) theory of institutions to view culture and society as institutions which influence the entrepreneurial process.

See research gate

Upananda

I have another paper on knowledge integration. You can reference it may be another idea in Cultural entrepreneurship.

Carlile, P. R. (2002). A pragmatic view of knowledge and boundaries: boundary objects in new product development. Organization Science, 13(4), 442-455.

Personality and sociocultural environment including demographics has determining impact on entrepreneurship. You may take help from few of my papers. One can find many related papers cited in the below listed papers:

Kundu, S.C. and Rani, S. (2008), “Human resources’ entrepreneurial attitude orientation by gender and background: a study of Indian Air Force trainees”, International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development, Vol. 5 No. 1, pp. 77-101.

Kundu, S.C. and Rani, S. (2010), “Entrepreneurial tendencies of aspiring human resources in India: a multivariate analysis”, International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development, Vol. 8 No. 4, pp.333-57.

Kundu, S.C. and Rani, S. (2013), “Demographic and personality determinants of entrepreneurial tendencies of aspirant human resources”, In Driving the Economy through Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Springer India, pp. 377-388.

I am strongly agree with the answers/discussions of Prof. Subhash C. Kundu, Prof. Stephen Dobson, & Prof.Roel Rutten,

Women entrepreneurs with high socio-cultural status have significantly different in their views and opinions then their counterparts from with low socio cultural status.

The Women entrepreneurship based on socio-cultural, may be classified as:

1. Opportunity - based entrepreneurship - an entrepreneur perceives a business opportunity and chooses to pursue this as an active career choice.

2. Necessity - based entrepreneurship – an entrepreneur is left with no other viable option to earn a living. It is not the choice but compulsion, which makes him/her, chooses entrepreneurship as a career

http://sgsrjournals.com/paperdownload/%2812%29_pp%28127-139%29.pdf

Hello, Sayamala -

Perhaps your school library might carry the Oxford Handbooks Online. One of these handbooks is Theories of Entrepreneurship: Historical Development and Critical Assessment by Martin Ricketts, The Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurship.

You can see information here: http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199546992.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199546992-e-2

Best,

Ruth

You can have a look to the survey attached

See: PESTEL Political, Economic, Sociocultural, Technological, Environmental,

and Legal factor analysis; GTCI Global Talent Competitiveness Index;

HDI Human Development Index;KAM Knowledge Assessment Methodology

You might be interested in these articles:

Kettunen, J., Penttilä, T. & Kairisto-Mertanen, L. (2013). Innovation pedagogy and desired learning outcomes in higher education, On the Horizon, 21(4), 333-342.

Dear Juha,

Your article on 'Innovation Pedagogy for Universities of Applied Sciences'  is very interesting and gives  some insightful ideas on teaching innovation in universities. However not addressing the major problem in entrepreneurship ' whether innovation could be taught seems to be a major gap. If entrepreneurship is an ability of individuals with special trait (risk bearing and capability of identifying opportunities), Shane (2003), then one has to assume that university students are equipped these abilitis. If not, teaching innovation will not be a fruitful exercise.

Then it is important to adopt a screening test to select student for innovation pedagogy.  Further, such an exercise  will also be a good research to address the the problem ' whether Innovation/entrepreneurship could be taught or  entrepreneurship is an inborn talent'.

Upananda ( Sri Lanka)

Dear Prof. Umachandran,

Thanks for our yprompt acknowledgement.

Upananda

Hello

i will suggest you look at some conceptual framework under entrepreneurship: the integrative theory, the culturalist approach and mixed embeddedness particularly.

Hi, this book focusses on indigenous entrepreneurship, and a number of contributors highlight the critical importance of culture to indigenous entrepreneurs:

Dana, L-P & Anderson, R. (Eds.), International handbook of research on indigenous entrepreneurship. Cheltenham, UK. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Cheers

Thank you Virginia.

Dear Shayamala,

Thanks for you prompt acknowledgement.

also, please let me know whether you received the requested article.

Upananda

Thank you sir,

Yes I had seen the article and it was needed for my research

@ Upananda Witta arachchilage

You may find it helpful to look at

Ute Stephan and Lorraine M Uhlaner: Performance-based vs socially supportive

culture: A cross-national study of descriptive norms and entrepreneurship. Journal of International Business Studies (2010) 41, 1347–1364.

The attached article might be interesting:

Some recent work of ours considers the role of context in shaping entrepreneurship. In particular, we consider Schwartz's values theory to analyse the influence of culture on the entrepreneurial potential of people.

https://elgarblog.wordpress.com/2015/03/10/developing-entrepreneurs-a-context-sensitive-process-by-francisco-linan/

A culture averse to business foundation may suppress start-up activities. This would, be the case when entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship have a bad image within a society or a region and the individual therefore does not consider this option of livelihood although he or she does not harbour any reservations towards entrepreneurs. In such a case there is a relationship between culture and business foundation activity not on the individual level but also on the level of groups, region or society.

KEY POLICY ISSUES IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SME DEVELOPMENT

http://www.oecd.org/site/cfecpr/42202841.pdf

Take a look at this paper:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299604127_Human_Factors_Affecting_Productivity_in_Jamaica_Technical_Report_on_Preliminary_Findings

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305687139_Priority_policy_recommendations_for_transforming_individual_productivity_and_SME_competitiveness_in_Jamaica

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303114038_Synthesis_of_major_cross-cutting_recommendations_from_the_TIPC_Working_Groups

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299747565_Towards_a_talent-driven_outward-oriented_globally-competitive_SME_framework_Discussion_Paper

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