Why do entrepreneurs open tech startups? A comparative study between Brazilian and foreign enterprises

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Lasso, Sarah, Mainardes, Emerson and Motoki, Fabio ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7464-3330 (2019) Why do entrepreneurs open tech startups? A comparative study between Brazilian and foreign enterprises. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 15. 233–255. ISSN 1555-1938

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Abstract

This research identifies and compares the reasons that lead entrepreneurs to open a startup in Brazil or abroad along six factors: self-realization, financial, independence, innovation, roles, and recognition. Understanding differences between entrepreneurs in distinct settings may help designing better entrepreneurship policies and more effective support for nascent businesses, as well as providing better guidance to investors. Entrepreneurs who own technological startups answered an online questionnaire about the reasons for entrepreneurship through technological startups. Respondents ranked each statement using a Likert scale from (1) completely disagree to (5) completely agree. Of the respondents, 325 were Brazilian and 130 were foreigners. Results show that top-ranked reasons are mostly similar across groups, with four of the top five reasons being common. However, comparatively, they score several reasons differently. These results highlight the different reasons to enterprise between people from different countries, supporting the importance of studying the entrepreneurial phenomenon in emerging economies, which differ substantially from developed ones. They also may help conciliating conflicting results of the reasons to enterprise literature.

Item Type: Article
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Social Sciences > Norwich Business School
Depositing User: LivePure Connector
Date Deposited: 03 Sep 2020 23:56
Last Modified: 22 Oct 2022 06:43
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/76748
DOI: 10.1007/s11365-017-0445-8

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