Autonomy is a primary motive, as well as source of satisfaction, for those who start and run their own business. Autonomy is not inherent to business ownership – owner/founders must make concentrated efforts to achieve and maintain autonomy. This study aims to increase our understanding of autonomy by investigating how it is experienced, the factors that affect it, and the actions that business owners take to attain and retain it. We study these topics in the setting of an emerging market – Russia – and compare the outcomes with a similar study conducted in the Netherlands. Our cross-cultural comparison reveals that the way autonomy is experienced and attained can be viewed as an expression of survival values in Russia and of self-expression values in the Netherlands. We posit an underlying structural similarity by theorizing the level of experienced entrepreneurial autonomy to be the outcome of the balance of power and dependencies.

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争取企业自主权：俄罗斯和荷兰的比较

对于那些创办和经营自己的企业的人来说，自主性是主要动机和满足感的来源。自主权不是企业所有权所固有的——所有者/创始人必须集中精力来实现和保持自主权。本研究旨在通过调查自主权的体验方式、影响自主权的因素以及企业主为实现和保留自主权而采取的行动来增加我们对自主权的理解。我们在新兴市场（俄罗斯）的背景下研究这些主题，并将结果与​​在荷兰进行的类似研究进行比较。我们的跨文化比较表明，自主体验和获得的方式可以被视为俄罗斯生存价值观和荷兰自我表达价值观的表达。