New Frontiers in the Internationalization of Businesses

4     Do Entrepreneurs’ Cultural Values Influence Firms’ Internationalization? Comparing Indigenous with Non-Indigenous Businesses in Canada

Introduction

Understanding the influence of entrepreneurs’ cultural values on their firms’ internationalization is an ongoing debate. Inglehart and Baker (2000) disentangle cultural values into two dimensions. One of those dimensions refers to traditional versus secular / rational values, and the other includes self-expression versus survival values. The current literature has shown that countries with a tendency toward traditional and self-expressive values tend to foster entrepreneurship (Hechevarria & Reynolds, 2009). Other studies have indicated that entrepreneurs in societies with self-expression ...