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People's confidence in innovation: a component of the entrepreneurial mindset, embedded in gender and culture, affecting entrepreneurial intention

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  • Shayegheh Ashourizadeh
  • Zohreh Hassannezhad Chavoushi
  • Thomas Schøtt

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People may have confidence in innovation, prone to try, buy and use new services and products. Expectedly, confidence in innovation is a component in the entrepreneurial mindset that promotes intention to become entrepreneur and is embedded in the micro-level context of gender and in the macro-level context of culture. - People's confidence in innovation is examined for a representative sample of 384,444 adults in 71 societies surveyed in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. - Linear modelling shows that people's confidence in innovation is a component in the entrepreneurial mindset by being especially high for entrepreneurs and by being related to other components such as self-efficacy, opportunity-alertness, risk-propensity and role-modelling. People's confidence are unrelated to their gender, unexpectedly, but are especially high in traditional culture, as hypothesised. Confidence in innovation promotes entrepreneurial intention, as expected and the benefit is especially high for men and in traditional culture, as hypothesised.

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  • Shayegheh Ashourizadeh & Zohreh Hassannezhad Chavoushi & Thomas Schøtt, 2014. "People's confidence in innovation: a component of the entrepreneurial mindset, embedded in gender and culture, affecting entrepreneurial intention," International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 23(1/2), pages 235-251.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijesbu:v:23:y:2014:i:1/2:p:235-251
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    1. Benedict Valentine Arulanandam & Christo Selvan & Goh Xin Tong, 2023. "Critical Factors Influencing Firms' Risk-Taking Behaviour: CEO Characteristics and the Moderating Role of the Audit Committee," Central European Business Review, Prague University of Economics and Business, vol. 2023(5), pages 1-41.
    2. Alfonso Expósito & Amparo Sanchis-Llopis & Juan A. Sanchis-Llopis, 2023. "CEO gender and SMEs innovativeness: evidence for Spanish businesses," International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, Springer, vol. 19(3), pages 1017-1054, September.
    3. Amir Emami & Shayegheh Ashourizadeh & Shima Sheikhi & Gadaf Rexhepi, 2022. "Entrepreneurial propensity for market analysis in the time of COVID-19: benefits from individual entrepreneurial orientation and opportunity confidence," Review of Managerial Science, Springer, vol. 16(8), pages 2413-2439, November.

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