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Regional social legitimacy of entrepreneurship: Implications for entrepreneurial intention and start-up behaviour
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posted on 2023-08-30, 14:16 authored by Ewald Kibler, Teemu Kautonen, Matthias FinkRegional social legitimacy of entrepreneurship: implications for entrepreneurial intention and start-up behaviour, Regional Studies. A new understanding of the role of regional culture in the emergence of business start-up behaviour is developed. The focal construct is regional social legitimacy: the perception of the desirability and appropriateness of entrepreneurship in a region. The econometric analysis utilizes a combination of bespoke longitudinal survey data from 65 regions in Austria and Finland, and variables capturing regional socio-economic characteristics derived from official statistics. The study demonstrates that, and explains how, regional social legitimacy influences the relationships between individual entrepreneurial beliefs, intentions and start-up behaviour and how these interaction effects are conditioned by the socio-economic characteristics of the region.
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48Issue number
6Page range
995-1015Publication title
Regional StudiesISSN
1360-0591External DOI
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Taylor & FrancisFile version
- Accepted version
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- eng
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2018-12-07Legacy Faculty/School/Department
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