基于“一分为三”思想的文化价值观、文化习俗与早期创业活动关系探索

Cultural Values,Cultural Practices and Early-Stage Entrepreneurial Activities:An Exploratory Study Based on Dialectical Thinking of“Three in One”

借鉴了"一分为三"的思想,试图澄清3个文化变量(价值观、习俗、二者的差异)之间的复杂关系,并且从理论上探讨其对早期创业活动的影响。基于"全球领导力和组织文化有效性"和"全球创业观察"两个数据库,实证研究发现,文化价值观和文化习俗对早期创业活动都有一定的解释能力,符合跨文化研究的主流结论;文化价值观和文化习俗之间呈负相关;文化价值观和文化习俗之间的差异,同样也影响着早期创业活动,符合"一分为三"的辩证思想。

Based on the dialectical thinking of ＂Three in One＂ （Yi Fen Wei San in Chinese）, this study proposes a theoretical interpretation on the complex relationship among cultural values, practices and their difference, and explores the relationship among these three cultural variables and early- stage entrepreneurship in particular. By employing GLOBE databank and GEM databank, it is found that both cultural values and cultural practices are useful for interpreting the cross-country differences in early-stage entrepreneurial activities, and it is largely consistent with the cross-cultural mainstream studies. Further, in general, there is a negative relationship between cultural values and cultural practices; and the results also show that the difference between cultural values and cultural practices also plays an important role in interpreting the cross-country difference arising from early-stage entrepreneurial activities. To our best knowledge, the latter has never been discussed previously, but is very consistent with the dialectical thinking of ＂Three in One＂.