yes  especially in vaishya community

now a days forward communities also join

you can develop a hypothesis

see chennai based entrepreneurs

yes, you can use an theoretical background from family business, the F-PEC model would be suitable for you. It measures an impact of family on entrepeneurship., or Davis's (1982) three-circle model.

try:

The F-PEC Scale of Family Influence: Construction, Validation, and Further Implication for Theory (Klein, Astrachan, 2005) or their other work

The most popular work touching on social networks and entrepreneurship is Dr. Saras Sarasvathy's work on Effectuation.

http://www.effectuation.org/

In terms of Social Enterprise and nonprofits the most interesting work I have come across is:

Kim, M. (2013). Socioeconomic Diversity, Political Engagement, and the Density of Nonprofit Organizations in US Counties. The American Review of Public Administration, 0275074013504616.

I am doing some research on marginalized communities and access to social enterprise and the general literature indicates a strong social network enables individuals to startup up social enterprises.  The part I am researching is if the corollary is also true i.e. do individuals with weak social networks have additional barriers in starting up social enterprise.

About family background, that the children of entrepreneurs have a lot more likely to become themselves entrepreneurs is a general rule of thumb is that over time and space, proven in many empirical studies (as exemplified by Blanchflower and Oswald 1998). The children of entrepreneurs "learn" to do business from their parents, as well as being easier in terms of the financial resources required for the activity. This capital is generally distinct from the human one because it arises from the "social capital", instilled in the individual component from family, relatives, friends, ultimately from the social environment. In this context, "social capital" refers to a protected structure, a network of relationships that gives its members access to resources that would be denied to outsiders (Bourdieu, 1983 Coleman 1988). According to Bourdieu (1983, p.249), the share capital is "the aggregate of actual or potential resources which are linked to possession of a durable network of elationships or less institutionalized mutual knowledge and recognition ... a 'credential' which gives right to credit, in its various aspects, to the members of the network. " The share capital owned by an individual is the result of a series of investment strategies, his family, and then own, which have the purpose to feed and reproduce the network of relationships to the end of the achievement of specific objectives. In an economic capital it is crucial also for the training of entrepreneurship and the creation of new businesses because,

within the network, it facilitates the flow of information, of knowledge,

innovations, and the combination of business skills complementary to each other. Research on the industrial district it has provided several examples of these processes (eg. Saxenian, 1994).

  With   our arrival  we receive the hat of our family & with the  passage of time in our social fabrics we are known with the title of our family .

Family is very important as it is the reflection of the standing of the entire family .

Very often it is known & said that entrepreneurship come from the family tree & we all know that every part of the world certain business magnet are known as their family traditional  & name .

in Tamilnadu as the Dravidian parties came to power Brahmins were denied education and jobs

most of their children went to Karnataka , Delhi and so on

They  were forced to make their own living and started small scale industries in Guindy, Trichi and so on

necessity is the mother of invention --   so individual matters

Socio-cultural Factors - The socio-cultural like family values and social value of Entrepreneurship, play a dominant role in nurturing the entrepreneurial system. Changing life style, western influence on local consumer Socio-Cultural Environment, modern living styles and rapid modern living conditions with most sophisticated living patterns also influences the entrepreneurs to take up new businesses.

http://ijbssnet.com/journals/Vol_3_No_7_April_2012/16.pdf

I find the article by Shittu (2014) very interesting and it basically supports the notion that family background has positive and significant influence among young graduates in Nigeria. In essence young Nigerians born into families where the father, mother or even close relatives are entrepreneurs tend to become entrepreneurs. See extract from research findings: 

"The impact of the positive experience associated with family background on perceived venture feasibility and desirability, entrepreneurial intention, as well as perceived entrepreneurial self among fresh graduates is statistically significant and stronger than the corresponding impacts of the broadness of family background."

Shittu, A. I (2014). Family Background and Entrepreneurial Intention of Fresh

Graduates in Nigeria. Journal of Poverty, Investment and Development - An Open Access International Journal, Vol.5 2014. Retrieved from http://www.iiste.org/Journals/index.php/JPID/article/viewFile/12040/12377

Those familiar with China rightly emphasize the support that its government is giving to the globalization of its leading firms. Given the level of involvement of the state in the industrial policies of other significant emerging economies such as India, South Korea, and Russia, there is a danger within analyses derived from western experience of understating the role that domestic governments can play in underwriting the process whereby their leading firms seek to achieve international competitiveness, not least when the foreign currency reserves for purchasing overseas assets are available

http://www.proglocode.unam.mx/sites/proglocode.unam.mx/files/J.Child%26Rodriguez(2005)InternationalChinaFirm.pdf

Please read the attach articles..

This is a very interesting topic!

Please read section 4 on the attached study conducted in Argentina. 

Based on a statistical analysis, such a hypothesis has been rejected (see page 273 on the link provided below).

Here in another useful reference:

Mahmood,T.(2012):“An empirical study of family background and entrepreneurship as a career selection among

university students of turkey and Pakistan,” International Journal of Business and Social Science,V.3,No.15(2012).

best example of new entrepruner ship is in the film industry

people come and take risks

Please go through these papers

Is there a theory supporting the relationship of family background and entrepreneurship?

I don’t know whether there is a clear cut theory, but there is enough evidence that there is a relationship between family background and entrepreneurship. The whole existence of family member succession in family companies is in fact proof of that. According to The Economist of the 18th of April 2015, Walter Bagelot a distinguished editor living in the 19th century, wrote that the banker’s calling is hereditary.  The Japanese inn, Hoshi Ryokan, is run  since 718 by the same family. The Koch brothers, owners of Koch Industries,  inherited their wealth from their father. The New York Times, Aldi, Walmart, Toyota, Samsung, Ferrari, Versace, all are family businesses run by family (successors). Family businesses make up about 80-90% of all businesses in the world and that means the involvement of succession of family members.

If you are raised as a family member in the business environment chances are that you are frequently exposed to the business information, you acquire skills, gain experience and manage algorithm how business is done, important factors of knowledge and capability. Knowledge and capability are important requirements for running a business and a family member with those assets can be 'forced' to take up the management of the family business. Henry Ford e.g. has been succeeded by members of his family since 1947.

Sometimes younger members are using family money to start new businesses. Not only success, but also failure of the business as in the case of Portugal Espirito Santo can impact the family and throw next generations into poverty. It is said that the worst thing about family business is succession and according to a Chinese saying: ‘Wealth doesn’t survive three generations’.

 Based on the facts above  you can say if you come from a family with a business that that business will have an effect on you, whether negative or positive. And you can safely say that in family businesses, members of the family (blood related or adopted) will take up the management and inherit positions instead of outsiders.  In general you can say that parents have the drive to pass their money, culture and knowledge to their children and that the children also have the drive to inherit all those and very often that is the case. In general both parties act on that drive. And because of this urge and efforts there is a relationship between family background and entrepreneurship, even if it is not always successful and riddled with problem.

 Read also:

• Adrian Wooldridge. To have and to hold.  In: The Economist , April 18th 2015 p. 3-16. Special Report Family Companies.
• Morten Bennedsen en Joseph Fan (2014). The Family Business Map.  Palgrave Macmillan.

Also for further reading:

•  Ernesto, J, Poza (2009). Family Business. South Western College Pub.
• Kelin E. Gersick et. al. (1997).  Generation to Generation. Life Cycles of the Family Business. Harvard Business Publications.
• Stephen L. McClure et. al. (2010).  Family Business Succession.  Palgrave Macmillan.

in India they believe in astrology

some people follow before  investing money

one should be watchful and clever

I agree with Rudi Darson that maybe there is not a clear cut theory. However I think that Social Capital Theory and Institutional Theory are pespective that can help you to link both variable. You may want to take look at Pearson, A.W.; Carr, J.C.; Shaw, J.C.(2008). "Toward a theory of familliness: A social capital perspective" . Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 32: 949-969. Arregle, J-L.;Hitt, M.A.;Sirmon, D.G.;Very, P. (2007). "The development of Organizational Social Capital: Attributes of Family Firms" .Journal of Manegement Studies, 44(1): 73-95. and Leaptrott, John. (2005)." An Institutional Theory View of the Family Business". Family Business Review, 18(3):215-218

Very well argued by Rudi. When one is constantly exposed to a way of life or process for an extended period of time after a while may become a part of him. I believe this is applicable to family businesses and interest by family members. As younger generations watch their parents/guardians carryout a given trade or business activity on a daily basis after a while they may begin to learn the trade.

Apart from the urge I wrote about -parents want to pass money and knowledge to their children and children want to inherit it- this whole question of family background and entrepreneurship can also be approached from the standpoint of organizational learning. The family unit of the entrepreneur/founder can be seen as an organization. And in that family unit the members will share their experiences, socialize with each other. And according to Nonaka, Toyama and Byosiere in their contribution 'Creating Organizational Learning' in "Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge' (Meinolf Dierkes et al, 2000) that is a form of organizational learning: gathering information, hearing ideas, interacting, asking questions, getting an understanding of the situation.  And the members very often go further through externalization, combination and internalization, to acquire knowledge. To become good in a certain profession, you have to be practicing that for at least 10,000 hours. The interaction of family members with the entrepreneur can be seen as an internship which duration is more than that 10,000 hours which is considered the norm to become versed in a certain profession. So the whole process is that of learning, very often deep learning and it is obvious that someone of the family member who is a good learner can become an entrepreneur very often in the same field, succeeding the founder of the manager/owner. 

And Bente Elkjaer (Social Learning Theory: Learning as Participation in Social Processes in Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management by M Easterly-Smith and Marjorie A. Lyles, 2003) explains that learning can be seen as participation in an social process. In the family there is a lot of intended and unintended, conscious and unconscious participation taking place.

So based on these theories there is a clear connection to be drawn through organizational learning between family background and entrepreneurship.

You can have a look to the attached articles; best regards, MV

The level of education in combination with a supportive family or social

environment seems to be important requisites for women entrepreneurship.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/zanran_storage/www.unescap.org/ContentPages/6931325.pdf