Socio-Cultural Facets for Sustainable Entrepreneurship Development

Socio-Cultural Facets for Sustainable Entrepreneurship Development

Neeta Baporikar, Rosalia Fotolela
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 23
DOI: 10.4018/IJSEM.2020100103
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Abstract

Entrepreneurship and development of entrepreneurship have been the focus of all economies, but more so of emerging economies. However, there are many barriers including social and cultural aspects in entrepreneurship development. This has resulted in entrepreneurship's mono-dimensional look. Yet, in reality, a person who deals with the creation of the neo-ideas has social and cultural aspects like family characteristics, customs, community, the rate of participation in society that can aid or be a detriment in becoming successful entrepreneurs leading to sustainable entrepreneurship development. Hence, adopting a qualitative exploratory approach using semi-structured in-depth interviews of 30 SME owner-managers of Namibia, the aim of this study is to understand the role of social and cultural facets for sustainable entrepreneurship development. Findings show that social factors in entrepreneurship emerged and grabs the benefits of new concepts to make progress where social justice has raised barriers, and the cultural factors influence entrepreneurs and social behaviors of practice.
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Problem Statement

The history of Namibia still affects the country so great, to understand the current situation of entrepreneurship and the reasons behind this study are social and cultural kinds of problems/factors that new entrepreneurs/SMEs may be facing in day-to-day activities. The study has looked at deepening the understanding of the social and cultural factors to find out how to support entrepreneurs and SMEs in the entrepreneurship journey. Every entrepreneur and SME was given an opportunity to a greater understanding of the relationship between social and cultural issues among entrepreneurial activity needs to be looked at because of its implication for national and regional development and growth (Krueger et al., 2013). Since the capacity of the state is limited to attracting and employing the people, urging unemployed people in entrepreneurial business can be an effective method that will have optimum effects on the prevention of social problems in society.

Research Objectives

  • To investigate the social factors influencing entrepreneurs and SMEs sector.

  • To investigate the cultural factors influencing entrepreneurs and society.

  • To identify the inhibiting social and cultural factors that influence entrepreneurs and SMEs.

  • To suggest suitable approaches to deal with the impending social and cultural factors.

Research Questions

  • How do the social factors influence entrepreneurs and the SMEs sector?

  • How do cultural factors influence entrepreneurs and society?

  • What are the inhibiting social and cultural factors that influence entrepreneurs and the SMEs sector?

  • What are the suitable approaches that deal with the impending social and cultural factors?

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