Considerable research has been conducted in the field of entrepreneurship. However, very few studies have explored the impact of entrepreneurship on the life satisfaction/happiness of individuals. Furthermore, they have yet to analyze the extent to which the impact of entrepreneurship is mediated by national cultures. The present study explores the effect of entrepreneurship on the life satisfaction/happiness of individuals and analyzes the extent to which such impact is mediated by ‘national cultures.’ Resorting to fixed effect panel data techniques, this study was conducted using the 2016 World Values Survey dataset, encompassing 90350 individuals from 60 countries over the 2010–2013 period, combined with information provided by the Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) Framework on cultural measures. We found that being an entrepreneur increases the chances of happiness across the entire set of countries analyzed. Culture does matter in such relation as the impact of entrepreneurship on happiness varies across the sample, being positive for sub-Saharan Africa and Eastern Europe and negative for the Middle East culture cluster. Governments should implement active policies to foster the emergence of new businesses because new ventures enable countries not only to increase their output per capita, but also to achieve economic development by stimulating well-being and happiness. Nevertheless, this study highlights the danger of ‘blind’ recipes/formulas to promote entrepreneurship without considering the ‘entrepreneurship ecosystem’ and, at a more general level, the countries’ culture.

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创业与幸福：民族文化重要吗？

在创业领域进行了大量的研究。然而，很少有研究探讨创业对个人生活满意度/幸福感的影响。此外，他们还没有分析创业的影响在多大程度上受民族文化的影响。本研究探讨了企业家精神对个人生活满意度/幸福感的影响，并分析了这种影响在多大程度上受到“民族文化”的影响。本研究采用固定效应面板数据技术，使用 2016 年世界价值观调查数据集进行，包括 2010-2013 年期间来自 60 个国家的 90350 名个人，并结合全球领导力和组织行为有效性 (GLOBE) 框架提供的信息文化措施。我们发现，成为一名企业家会增加所分析的整个国家/地区的幸福机会。文化在这样的关系中确实很重要，因为创业对幸福的影响在样本中各不相同，对撒哈拉以南非洲和东欧是积极的，对中东文化集群是消极的。政府应该实施积极的政策来促进新企业的出现，因为新企业不仅可以让各国增加人均产出，还可以通过刺激福祉和幸福来实现经济发展。然而，这项研究强调了“盲目”食谱/公式在不考虑“创业生态系统”以及更普遍的国家文化的情况下促进创业的危险。