religion and entrepreneuship, Audretsch et. al (2007)

Provided gap - from the article

1. "While consideration concern has emerged about the impact of religion on economu development, little has actually known about how religious impact on the decision of individual."

This paper examine the influence of religion on the desicion for people to become and entrepreneurs and in general, religion and entrepreneurial in Indian context. The finding supported Max Weber's in sight, religion in India is an important influence on economic matters. India has adverse religiona, and the majority are Hindu, Islam and Christian. Islam and Christian are conducive to entrepreneurship, while Hindu proven, is inhibit into it. This may be resulted from the caste system that influence the backward classess and to the Hindu in general.

Future research on this topic and the conditioning effect of teh particular locational context is recommended.

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Religion and Entrepreneuship in New Zealand, Carswell & Rolland (2007)

Provided gaps- From the article:

1. "It appears that while entrepreneurship literature suggest that value system may
   significantly affect entrepreneurial activity, little research has been done in
   Non- Christian values"
2. "This area of research is relatively untouched, there are many possible avenues that need to be explored further. "
3. " Few studies that attempted to examine the roles of religion in entrepreneurship participation and perception."
4. "A deeper understanding between entrepreneurship and culture is needed (Morison, 2000) and this paper attempt to use Religion (sub culture) to that direction.

The purpose of this article is to examine the relationship between religion and entrepreneurship, and how changing religious mix might contributing to entrepreneurial participation and perception in New Zealand, to understand the individual views on the individual and social contribution of business Enterprise. New Zealand has religious mix and ethnicity over the last 25 years, does this has an impact to entrepreneurship participation and perception?. 2000 sample were randomly selected as sample and via telephone they were asked to measure their perception of individual and societal impact of entrepreneurial participation and religious practice. The finding shows that increasing diversity does not appears to have an impact on differentiating perceptions on the perceived importance of entrepreneurship for societal growth and well being. This may resulted by the three major religions, focuses on achieving a desired place in the afterlife, and good works with and for mankind while on earth is obligatory.

Future research:

1. "aim specifically at one religious group to gain better understanding of their entrepreneurial motivations and intentions"- to explore why some religious groups appear to be more entrepreneurial than others and whether or not the government support system driven out Western/ Christian philosophical perspective best meet the need of such group.
2. "Examine the value system held of the various religious entrepreneurs and non- entrepreneurs".

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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.

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