Socio-cultural factors and the entrepreneurship of youths in rural regions

Abstract

Purpose -This paper aims to demonstrate the impact of two important socio-cultural factors on the level of the entrepreneurial activity of young individuals in rural regions.Design/methodology/approach -Our empirical study is based on a sample collected from an adult population survey, and analyzed using a logit model that controls for territorial and aging sources of heterogeneity. Our theoretical framework is anchored on a contingency perspective that emphasizes the unique influences of the contextual environment in driving entrepreneurial behavior.Findings -The main findings of our study is that in Spain the likelihood of being entrepreneurially active is no different for young and old individuals, and between rural and urban regions. Surprisingly, unlike shown in most studies, entrepreneurial role models do not have any effect on the entrepreneurship by young individuals in rural regions of Spain, while the negative impact of fear of failure in the entrepreneurship on young individuals in rural regions is much higher compared to the rest of the population.Originality/value -Our findings reveal that the context (regional) has a more significant impact on entrepreneurship for some segments (younger individuals) of the population than for others.

Parental role models and entrepreneurial intentions in Colombia

“…Researches in the field of entrepreneurship have proposed role model as one of the explanatory and determinant driver of entrepreneurial activity (Gnyawali and Fogel, 1994;Krueger and Brazeal, 1994;Gibson, 2004;Van Auken et al, 2006;Bosma et al, 2012;Wyrwich et al, 2016;G omez-Araujo and Bayon, 2017). In this way, Gnyawali and Fogel (1994) have classified role model as a socio-cultural factor that impacts a person to be an entrepreneur.…”

“…This factor is understood as the capacity of perception that an individual has to identify and learn with the actions and behaviors of other individuals with whom it is related, to influence their intention to perform actions. An interesting aspect of the analysis of the entrepreneurial intention is proven that its positive or negative impact is not the same for all types of people; for example, this variable influences differently young people than older people (G omez-Araujo and Bayon, 2017), or between men and women (Bruni et al, 2014;Wyrwich et al, 2016). On the other hand, depending on who is the person observed as a role model, the influence of parental role model on their children could be greater than other people (Chlosta et al, 2012;Criaco et al, 2017;Nowi nski and Haddoud, 2019).…”

Contexto sociocultural en el espíritu emprendedor de estudiantes de instituciones educativas secundarias de Trujillo, 2020

“…Sin embargo, los resultados hallados se contraponen a los de (Gómez & Chandra, 2017), que en el artículo científico: Factores socioculturales y emprendimiento juvenil en regiones rurales [trad] realizado en España y que manifiesta la nula influencia de los aspectos socioculturales como la edad (mayores y menores) y el lugar de procedencia (urbano o rural) en la iniciativa emprendedora. De otro lado, de manera general los modelos de emprendedores tienen efecto positivo en el espíritu emprendedor, esa misma influencia no se presenta en los jóvenes rurales.…”

Entrepreneurship: An Option to Solving Unemployment Problem Among Nigerian Youths

“…Youths these days are generally better trained in comparison to previous generations. This, in turn, has made them more capable, for instance, to create and manage their businesses [30]. Akinwale et al, [5] opined that younger individuals are more likely to be entrepreneurs.…”