When does the Socio-cultural Context Matter? Communal Orientation and Entrepreneurs' Resource Accumulation Efforts in Africa

• Main Authors: KHAYESI, Jane N. O., GEORGE, Gerard
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2011
• Subjects: African Studies; Business; Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/4678; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/5677/viewcontent/Khayesi_et_al_2011_Socio_cultural_Africa.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We examined the effect of entrepreneurs’communal orientation and social capital on entrepreneurs’ acquisition of resources, and the cost of raising those resources. Using an errors-in-variables estimation in a sample of 242 Ugandan entrepreneurs from Kampala, we find that shared identity is positive...