INDIVIDUAL AND CONTEXTUAL DETERMINANTS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP: AN INTERNATIONAL COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

• Main Authors: Hatos Adrian, Hatos Roxana
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: University of Oradea 2010-12-01
• Series: Annals of the University of Oradea: Economic Science
• Subjects: entrepreneurial behavior; contextual factors; comparative analysis
• Online Access: http://anale.steconomiceuoradea.ro/volume/2010/n2/013.pdf

Models of entrepreneurial behavior focus usually on individual level factors yet a great deal of beginning and running a business depends on the economic, social and institutional environment. Our analysis uses data from the 2008 European Social Survey to assess the weight of country-level characteristics in explaining individual entrepreneurship measured as self-employment of business ownership. The article starts with a literature review which puts the bases of our hypotheses. The results describe cross country comparisons of entrepreneurship rates, individual and country-level regressions of entrepreneurship. As expected, there are large differences between countries with respect to rates of entrepreneurship. A great part of this variance can be accounted for by the division between the former socialist countries and the rest and by levels of urbanization.