What is it about?

This article studies the motivations and inhibitions behind entrepreneurship in Tunisia. The data collection started before and finished after the 2011 revolution. This article allows highlighting how the Arab spring changed the nature and structure of new graduates' motivations and inhibitions to being an entrepreneur.

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Why is it important?

This study shows the influence of poverty, mafia, corruption, popular revolutions, and war in a neighboring country on entrepreneurship. It also emphasizes cultural factors such as the bureaucratic system, autocracy, and entrepreneurial milieus. Finally, it shows how the Arab spring changed new graduates’ motivations and inhibitions.

Perspectives

This article is interesting because it takes as a setting an understudied country of the MENA region: Tunisia. Besides, comparing entrepreneurship before and after the Arab Spring brings new perspectives and insights in better understanding the intention to create a firm.

Professor Mourad Touzani
NEOMA Business School

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This page is a summary of: Contextual and cultural determinants of entrepreneurship in pre- and post-revolutionary Tunisia, Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, February 2015, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/jsbed-10-2011-0011.
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