INDIVIDUAL AND CONTEXTUAL DETERMINANTS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP: AN INTERNATIONAL COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

Hatos Roxana () and Hatos Adrian ()
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Hatos Roxana: Universitatea din Oradea, Facultatea de Stiinte Economice
Hatos Adrian: Universitatea din Oradea, Facultatea de Stiinte Socio-Umane

Annals of Faculty of Economics, 2010, vol. 1, issue 2, 107-110

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: entrepreneurial behavior; contextual factors; comparative analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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