Which institutions encourage entrepreneurial growth aspirations?

Abstract

We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain entrepreneurial growth aspirations across individuals and institutional contexts. Our framework generates hypotheses at the national level about the negative impact of higher levels of corruption, weaker property rights and greater government activity on entrepreneurs' aspirations to increase employment. We further explore whether individual's social networks compensate for weaknesses in national institutions. We use the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor surveys in 42 countries for 2001-2006, applying a multilevel estimation framework to test our ideas. We find that the relationship between growth aspiring entrepreneurs and institutions is complex; they benefit simultaneously from strong government (in the sense of property rights enforcement), and smaller government, but are constrained by corruption. Social networks mediate some but not all institutional deficiencies.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusvent.2012.05.001
Divisions: College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School > Economics, Finance & Entrepreneurship
College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School
Additional Information: NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Journal of business venturing. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Estrin, S, Korosteleva, J & Mickiewicz, T, 'Which institutions encourage entrepreneurial growth aspirations?' Journal of business venturing, vol.28, no.4 (2012) DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2012.08.001
Uncontrolled Keywords: entrepreneurship,growth aspirations,institutions,social networks,government,Management of Technology and Innovation,Business and International Management
Publication ISSN: 1873-2003
Last Modified: 28 Mar 2024 08:11
Date Deposited: 20 May 2013 09:15
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2013-07
Published Online Date: 2012-08-17
Authors: Estrin, Saul
Korosteleva, Julia
Mickiewicz, Tomasz (ORCID Profile 0000-0001-5261-5662)

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