Carolina Gómez's research while affiliated with Towson University and other places

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This study introduces and validates a measure of country institutional profile for entrepreneurship consisting of regulatory, cognitive, and normative dimensions. Subscales based on data from six countries show reliability, discriminant validity, and external validity. The instrument provides researchers with a valuable resource for exploring why e...

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... The strength of the institutional entrepreneurial support that surrounds the companies is heavily related to the entrepreneurial activity and performance of the company and the country in general (Bowen & De Clercq, 2008;Walter & Block, 2016). Valdez and Richardson (2013) argue that the institution (Busenitz et al., 2000) sets norms and standards of behavior, reinforcing certain behaviors and ways of thinking of society in general and entrepreneurs in specific. The institution is also seen as a shared value that governs social and economic behavior and exchange in a certain country (Chiles et al., 2016;Gupta et al., 2014). ...
... The entrepreneurial institutional environment refers to the connection between the entrepreneur and the external environment (Clercq et al., 2010;Arun et al., 2020). It is a series of internal and external factors that influence entrepreneurship (Busenitz, et al., 2000;Scott, 2001;Sun et al., 2020;Haddad et al., 2021). Previous empirical studies confirm that the institutional environment decisively determines the level and type of entrepreneurial activities. ...