Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Religion and entrepreneurs: an introductory exploration, Dodd & Seaman, 1998 (ETP)

Religion has the power in shaping the society (vice versa), personal belief , hence, this paper focus upon the relationship between entrepreneurship and religion, and the continuance of Weberianism, with the famous quasi Weberian- hard work, independence, thrift and economic success. In order to operationalize this research, qualitative approach has been adopted (including semi structured interviews and secondary data) to assess the religiosity affect on individual behavior and examine the nature of the religion of the entrepreneurs. Taken UK entrepreneurs as the sample, the hypothesis aiming to show the relationship between economic success of entrepreneurs really has impacted by a religion. The finding shows that very entrepreneurial (successful entrepreneurs) are no more likely to be religious than those whose entrepreneurship pertains solely in self employment. There were an argument that paucity of time, independence, limited network and economic independence has caused to that scenario. Therefore, this study has entirely escape to notice of the subjects of Weber theory but lend support the theory of British secularization- the power of religions- a significant munificence factor in Britain at least, may well be rather smaller than anticipated.
Future research:
  1. the sample size of the study were for some important groups in Britain, while this issue is cross- denominational.
  2. indepth and qualitative research on the substantial minority of the self employed and business owners in the sample.
Rabbi Yassir Wala Tu' Asir
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