Loosen up? Cultural tightness and national entrepreneurial activity

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 121, Issue , 2017, Pages 196-204

  Harms, Rainer ^a,b   Groen, Aard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b PETER THE GREAT ST PETERSBURG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Culture; Entrepreneurship; GEM; National System of entrepreneurship; National Systems of innovation; Social entrepreneurship

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; GEMS; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING;

CULTURAL CONDITIONS; CULTURAL DIMENSIONS; ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITY; ENTREPRENEURSHIP; NATIONAL SYSTEM OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP; NATIONAL SYSTEMS OF INNOVATIONS; SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP; UNCERTAINTY AVOIDANCE;

BUSINESS; CULTURE; ENTREPRENEUR; INNOVATION; OWNERSHIP; POLICY MAKING;

EID: 84964928022     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2016.04.013     Document Type: Article

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