Purpose - The authors enrich and extend the existing institutional anomie theory (IAT) in the hope of sharpening the understanding of the joint effects of selected cultural values and social institutional changes on women's pre-entrant entrepreneurial attempts. The authors theorize that women...

Despite recognition of the importance of facilitative environments to promote new ventures and the corresponding efforts of many governments to provide the necessary infrastructure to fuel growth in entrepreneurship, our understanding of the relationship between the new venture and the state is...