Government Bureaucracy, Transactional Impediments, and Entrepreneurial Intentions

In environments where information asymmetries and changing market conditions are ever-present, discerning between different macro-level and contextual factors that stimulate or inhibit entrepreneurial activity still needs to be validated. Utilizing our own primary data ( N = 1473 across 10 countries) as well as secondary data (World Bank Economic Forum, Global Financial Data, and Transparency International), we investigate the role that several contextual indices (e.g. perceptions of an entrepreneurial culture) and macro-level indices (e.g. government corruption, GDP per capita, and ease of doing business indices) have on entrepreneurial intentions. Results reveal the impact government corruption and the concomitant transactional impediments have on the degree of entrepreneurial interest across countries. Dans des contextes où sont omniprésentes les asymétries de l’information et les conditions fluctuantes des marchés, il n’a toujours pas été possible d’identifier le discernement entre les différents facteurs contextuels et macroscopiques qui stimulent ou inhibent l’activité entrepreneuriale. Nous appuyant sur nos propres données primaires (N = 1473 sur l’ensemble de 10 pays) et sur des données secondaires (Forum économique de la Banque mondiale, Données financières mondiales et Transparence internationale), nous étudions le rôle que jouent plusieurs indices contextuels (par ex. la perception d’une culture entrepreneuriale) et les indices macroscopiques (par ex. indices de corruption gouvernementale, du PIB per capita, et de commerce facile) sur les intentions entrepreneuriales. Les résultats obtenus révèlent les répercussions que peuvent avoir la corruption gouvernementale et les obstacles transactionnels concomitants sur le degré d’intérêt entrepreneurial que l’on accorde dans tous les pays. En los entornos donde están siempre presentes las disimetrías de la información y condiciones cambiantes del mercado, aún no se ha evaluado el discernimiento entre los distintos factores contextuales a nivel macroscópico que estimulan o inhiben la actividad empresarial. Basándonos en nuestros datos primarios (N = 1473 en 10 países) así como en datos secundarios (Foro Económico del Banco Mundial, Datos Financieros Globales y Transparencia Internacional), investigamos la función que desempeñan varios índices contextuales (por ej., la percepción de una cultura empresarial) e índices a nivel macroscópico (por ej., corrupción gubernamental, PIB per capita y facilidad de comerciar) respecto a las intenciones empresariales. Los resultados revelan el impacto que causa la corrupción gubernamental y los impedimentos transaccionales concomitantes sobre el grado de interés empresarial en todos los países. In Bereichen mit allgegenwärtigen Informationsasymmetrien und wechselnden Marktbedingungen muss die Unterscheidung zwischen verschiedenen Makroebenen und Kontextfaktoren, die unternehmerische Aktivitäten stimulieren oder unterdrücken, noch überprüft werden. Anhand unserer eigenen Primärstatistiken (N = 1473 in 10 Ländern) sowie Sekundärdaten (Weltbank Wirtschaftsforum, Globale Finanzdaten und Transparency International), untersuchen wir den Einfluss, den verschiedene kontextbezogene Kennziffern (z.B. Vorstellungen über eine Unternehmerkultur) sowie Indizes auf Makroebene (z.B. staatliche Korruption, pro-Kopf-Bruttoinlandsprodukt und die Leichtigkeit, mit der betriebswirtschaftliche Indizes erstellt werden können) auf unternehmerische Absichten haben können. Ergebnisse zeigen, welche Auswirkungen staatliche Korruption und die damit verbundenen Geschäftshindernisse auf den Umfang von unternehmerischem Interesse in den verschiedenen Ländern haben.

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