Entrepreneurial Orientation In A Situational Context: Comparisons Between Germany and The United States

Abstract

Previous research has evaluated some elements of U.S. students' entrepreneurialorientation, while the present research extends and broadens this researchto consider different situational settings across students in both Germany (n =95) and the United States (n = 147). The study evaluates both self-perceptionsof entrepreneurial orientation and perceptions of the average level of entrepreneurialorientation of the country in which the student resides, based on parentalinvolvement and the different economic and social conditions within which thestudent resides. Results indicate that parental entrepreneurship and country oforigin affect self-perception of entrepreneurial orientation, but that only countryof origin affects perceptions of one's countrymen's entrepreneurial orientation.