Purpose: This paper seeks to identify the cultural obstacles or what discourages the setting-up of businesses among Singaporeans. Design/methodology/approach: Focus group method. Findings: Four obstacles: being over-compliant, too left-brained, over-pampered, and afraid of failing, are...

Initiating and implementing an entrepreneurship start-up is a complex decision-making process, where many opportunities and risks need to be analyzed. To help entrepreneurs grow, policymakers should provide a favorable environment that facilitates business rather than creating obstacles. The...

Brunei, a country producing oil and gas for over 80 years, faces the need to boost entrepreneurship to diversify the country’s economy and to increase its non-oil or gas dependent income/revenue. This economic diversification can have important benefits for the country, both economically and...