Institutional Influences on strategic entrepreneurial Behaviours

Erkko Autio () and Zoltan Acs
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Erkko Autio: Imperial College Business School

No 2009-080, Jena Economics Research Papers from Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to examine the existence of cross-level moderating effects between national appropriability conditions, individual level predictors and entrepreneurial growth aspirations. We test a multi-level model that connects the determinants of strategic resource allocation decisions at the individual level with the strength of the intellectual property rights regime at the national level. The results suggest that the strengths of the intellectual property regime will moderate negatively the relationship between an individual's education and her growth aspirations and moderate positively the relationship between an individual's income and her growth aspirations. The findings support claims that strategic entrepreneurial behavior cannot be fully understood without giving attention to the context in which those behaviors are observed.

Keywords: strategic entrepreneurship; multi-level analysis; intellectual property protection; growth aspirations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C3 F5 J24 L26 M13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-10-05
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cse, nep-ent, nep-hrm, nep-ino, nep-ipr, nep-pr~ and nep-sbm
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