Intra-cultural differences and causation and effectuation A qualitative study of how regional culture influences entrepreneurial causation and effectuation processes
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2020-12-18
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Entrepreneurship is embedded in a social context and influenced by social and cultural factors (Aldrich & Zimmer, 1986). Values are an important aspect of these cultural factors, because individuals use them to express their culture in their daily life. Culture is subjected to contextual influences, and therefore intra-cultural differences within a nation cannot be ignored (Lomnitz-Adler, 1991; Sackmann & Philips, 2004). Entrepreneurs have to make decisions on a day-to-day basis and pursue opportunities. There can be two approaches followed in entrepreneurial decision-making, each with their own benefits: causation and effectuation. The goal of this research was to give insight in how the relation between regional culture and entrepreneurial causation and effectuation processes is shaped. This has been realized by conducting an exploratory, abductive and qualitative research. Ten entrepreneurs in the hotels and restaurants industry from two regions in the Netherlands were interviewed and compared. The analysis of the collected data resulted in uncovering multiple potential relations between regional culture and entrepreneurial causation and effectuation processes. A reconceptualization of the concept culture was made in order to be able to describe the regional culture of the respondents. It can be concluded that a strong social cohesion seems to have a relation with effectuation, whereas a weaker social cohesion seems related to causation. Furthermore, progressivism is associated with causation. There was no influence found of introversion/extraversion or power distance on causation or effectuation. Follow up research is necessary in order to validate these assumptions
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen