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Sociological perspectives and research provide important and distinctive contributions to the understanding of entrepreneurship in three ways. The first is through the development of societal conceptions regarding productive activities that encompass the entrepreneurial role or function. The major alternatives emphasize socioeconomic systems as ...
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Mar 14, 2011 · Although there has considerable research based on psychological and economic approaches to entrepreneurship, the influence of socio-cultural factors on enterprise development remains under studied. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to integrate, from a theoretical perspective, the socio-cultural factors and entrepreneurial activity.
- Patricia H. Thornton, Domingo Ribeiro-Soriano, David Urbano
- 2011
Dec 2, 2021 · Research on social problems has a long tradition in sociology (Frank, 1925; Loseke, 2003; Merton & Nisbet, 1961; Spector & Kitsuse,1977), but this tradition has largely been sidelined by organizational theorists. We argue that engaging sociological literature on social problems provides a distinct and empirically useful perspective on organized ...
Dec 26, 2020 · In general, th ere are three groups of factors that strongly affect business. activities: 1. Individual personality traits, which are shaped by economic, social, and political. environment and ...
- Background and Methodological Ideas of Action-Based Explanations in Sociology
- Main Forms of Action-Based Explanations in Sociology
- Analytical Mechanism Approach
After 1945, macro theories, especially Marxism and Structural-Functionalism, which aim to explain social phenomena by using general laws on the social level, were highly criticized because no macro laws could be empirically proven, and there were inherent shortcomings (Merton 1936; Boudon 1974).Footnote 8 Social scientists started rethinking the co...
In response to the challenges of the postwar phase, not only the American but also European sociologists were guided towards action based explanations in the 1970s. Attempts of action-theoretically-based models developed especially in the methodological framework of Critical Rationalism by Karl Popper (Lindenberg et al. 1986). The idea of multi-lev...
The mechanism approach,Footnote 11 that has emerged recently, is also inspired by the aim of providing causal explanations and of overcoming the fallacy of macro approaches and the shortcomings of rational choice theory. For most of new economic sociologists, middle range theories are highlighted as a way to move forward. Mechanism models investiga...
- Andrea Maurer
- andrea.maurer@uni-trier.de
- 2021
Jul 1, 2023 · Institutional factors: top management commitment; local management commitment Social factors: Social Norms (departmental peers, informal circle, professional peers, supervisor, and senior leader) Individual factors: computer self-efficacy; personal innovativeness with technology
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Apr 1, 2011 · Abstract. Scholars who study entrepreneurship have lent great value by exploring the factors that explain how entrepreneurs create new businesses and thus, how societies and economies grow and ...
