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Culture and Entrepreneurial Self Efficacy: Comparative Analysis at Provincial Level 
in Pakistan  
 
Muhammad Mansoor Ali 

a
, Hajra Ihsan 

b
, Afia Mushtaq 

c
 

 

a
 Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, NUML, Islamabad, Pakistan  

  Email: mmali@numl.edu.pk 
b
 Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, IIUI, Islamabad, Pakistan 

  Email: Hajra.ihsan@iiu.edu.pk 
c
 Assistant Professor, University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan 

  Email: Mushtaque.afia64@gmail.com 
 

ARTICLE DETAILS ABSTRACT 
History: 
Accepted 10 May 2021 

Available Online June 2021 
 

The debate about embeddedness of entrepreneurship in cultural 
dimensions has not found any conclusive theory but still there is ample 

evidence that culture has impact on intention of entrepreneurial activity. 
The culturally legitimate vocational choices affect the efficacy to make an 
entrepreneurial startup. This is directly linked with not only the 

economic activity but also for creating businesses with the available 
local resources. Entrepreneurial self-efficacy reflects the personal beliefs 
of individuals in their own abilities and regarding opportunity 
recognition and risk propensity. The study conducted the analysis by 

comparing entrepreneurs in four provinces of Pakistan (Punjab, Khyber 

Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh and Balochistan) and found significant differences 
in factors describing self-efficacy. MGCFA revealed the stability of the 
research instrument across the provinces thus factor loadings for 
different provinces can be compared. Entrepreneurs in Punjab have 

relatively stronger entrepreneurial self-efficacy in contrast with other 
provinces. The policy intervention should be reflective of the situation of 
each province, and public policy related to business environment should 
be more liberal while in other provinces supportive of entrepreneurs 
through institutional support to new business developers. 
 

© 2021 The authors. Published by SPCRD Global Publishing. This is an 
open access article under the Creative Commons Attribution-

NonCommercial 4.0  

Keywords: 
Entrepreneurship,  Role and 
Effects of Psychological, 
Emotional, Social and Cognitive 
Factors on Decision Making,  
Public Policy 
 

JEL Classification:  
L26, D91, J18 

 
DOI: 10.47067/reads.v7i2.356 

Corresponding author’s email address: mmali@numl.edu.pk 
 
1. Introduction 

The experience of the nations during the recessions has revealed that small businesses with their 
innovations in products and services emerging with newer strategies to survive and thrive always lead 
the way to economic recovery. It is ability of any society to create enabling circumstances for 
entrepreneurial actions as effectuation of entrepreneurial expertise is to logically think for new 
business startup with ability to survive and thrive in an unpredictable future. In the recent past most 



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remarkable business ventures have emerged for those innovative businesses that were built in an 
unknown and unknowable future market situation (Fritsch & Wyrwich, 2018). It is entrepreneurial 
efficacy that enables entrepreneurs to shape this unpredictable future and create organizations that 
delve upon ways to continuously embrace newness and creativity. When stock market is down and 

generating signals of stress in the economy, entrepreneurial startups endeavors do not add to it instead 
become a source of generating new jobs. Hayes and Malone (2009) acknowledged this fact and 
indicated that only entrepreneurs rather any governmental action could lead the US out of financial 
crisis. Therefore, the entrepreneurial activity has become a source of sustainable growth for any 
economy not only for efficient use of available scarce resources but also for social harmony and 
prosperity. The natural, agricultural and human resources are at the disposal of entrepreneur to create 
value for creating new enterprises. Thus, the entrepreneurial literature comprehends the individual 
attributes of an entrepreneur, the organizational setting it creates for success, and the macroeconomics 
environment (industry, legal, national and global) (Farah & Ali, 2018). 

 
Among factor driven economies Pakistan not only has lowest number of established firms and 

economic policy makers continue to ignore and neglect the role of entrepreneurship (GEM Pakistan 
Report, 2011). Chemin (2008) cited that annual new firms entry rate in Pakistan was 7% as compared 

to 10.2% in industrialized countries found in entrepreneurship survey of 84 developing and industrial 
countries for the period 2003–2005 by The World Bank Group. But when it comes to size of the firms, 
business landscape in Pakistan is dominated by relatively smaller firms. Small and Medium Enterprise 
Development Authority (SMEDA) reported that in 2015 there were about 3.5 million private firms 
(registered and non-registered) employing 80% of the non-agricultural labor force but 90% of these 
firms have less than 100 employees. The share of small and medium sized firms in exports is 25% with 

40% contribution in GDP (Economic Census of Pakistan, 2016). 
 
The study is generally concerned with assessing the potential of individuals to try to attempt 

establishing an entrepreneurial business. It requires understanding of personal internal strengths, 

efficient financial and market management, and awareness of ecological factor. All these factors 
determine the rate of success of these attempts in agriculture and non-agriculture based businesses. But 
study will be confined to entrepreneurial startups that are based on agriculture factor inputs due to the 
fact that still around 70% of population of Pakistan is directly or indirectly employed in agriculture 
sector. Furthermore, the data collection will not only be restricted to few of the important cities, but 
also within those cities in which entrepreneurs will be available. The instruments of the study will be 
refined on the basis of preliminary data collected from entrepreneurial startups located in Rawalpindi 
and Hattar. The quality of data will depend largely on the time preferences of the respondents. As the 
study is to determine the efficacy of the individuals, therefore, the conclusions drawn will be limited to 
individuals and not the corporate entities as a whole. 
 

2.    Literature Review 
Aggregate entrepreneurial behavior is strongly rational deliberately indulged to create a synergy 

for systematic transformation of existing ways to produce goods and services with the use of 
knowledge, technology and capital. The ‘Four Key Factors’ constituting entrepreneurial process are: 
talent, technology, know-how, and capital (Gibson, 1991). Each factor represents a separate entity but is 
interdependent and together creates synergy for creating a new organization. Effectuation enables a 
person to use these factors effectively to create entrepreneurial intentions and new uses of available 
resources in the face of uncertain and unpredictable future. 

 
‘Excellence in asking more of yourself than what others do’ describes the concept of self-efficacy. 



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Self-efficacy measures a person’s competence within a specific framework, focusing on the self-
assessment of abilities to perform specific tasks aligned with goals and standard rather than in 
comparison with capabilities of others (Fritsch & Wyrwich, 2018). Self-efficacy is closely linked to 
important entrepreneurial outcomes like start-up intentions (Kruger et.al. 2000), new venture growth 

and personal success of entrepreneur (Markman et.al. 2002). Therefore, the entrepreneurial self-
efficacy is central to long-run growth of any economy. The entrepreneurial self-efficacy is reflected in 
the creation of new organizations like corporations, social services delivery, and innovative initiatives 
(Fuller et al., 2018). 

 
They understand the importance of enacting systems for business management i.e. financial 

management, planning cash flows, marketing, human resources development, and strategic planning, 
etc. (Chen, Greene & Crick, 1998). These varying insights into the entrepreneurial behavior can lead us 
to conclusion that an entrepreneur has a distinctive persona, approach towards life, enthusiasm, vision 
and commitment to transform plans into reality through a well thought out business plan and to cease 
every opportunity of innovation (Linan & Chen, 2009). Therefore, entrepreneur needs to have very 

strong personality traits that are shaped by the personal background, experience, education, training, 
and environment. Such personality traits make many scholars to say that entrepreneurs are born rather 

made (Flora, 2006). 
 
Entrepreneurs are differentiated from non-entrepreneurs generally on the basis of individual 

level factors (Shane, 2003). At this level, certain attributes differentiate individuals on the basis of the 
way they discover, evaluate, and take advantage of entrepreneurial opportunities. Entrepreneurs are 
more achievement-orientated than their peers (Collins, Hannon & Smith 2004). The motive of self-

realization and independence drives an entrepreneur to think out of the ordinary and come up with 
ideas that can be translated into new goods and services (Carter et al. 2003; Douglas and Shepherd 
2002). Self-efficacy and having belief in one’s competence to pursue a new venture is important for 
every entrepreneur (Chen, Greene & Crick, 1998; McGee et al., 2009; Townsend, Busenitz & Arthurs, 

2010).  
 
This self-belief makes them to stand for relatively more risk, therefore, manifesting higher risk 

propensity for their projects. Entrepreneurs also face risk of carrying the ‘stigma’ in case of failure of 
their project (Stewart & Roth, 2004). Schumpeter (1934) went on to say that entrepreneur is the person 
who breaks the existing economic order down to create new products and services, create new 
opportunities and create new firms. Therefore, an entrepreneur is more creative than non-
entrepreneurs (Lee & Wong, 2004). If the project thrives, entrepreneur fulfills the dream of financial 
success but more than this, the contended feeling of success as a social norm enables him to earn and 
create the social network that is enabling for entrepreneurial culture (Elster, 1989; Turker & Selcuk, 
2009). 

 
3.     Data & Methodology 

The research in theory of entrepreneurial self-efficacy has not yet developed one-factor 
construct that can describe the entrepreneurial competence. In a similar effort Sarasvathy (2001) 
described four principles of effectuation enabling a person to take up risk prone business decision in an 
unknowable future: bird in hand; affordable loss; pre-commitments, and flexibility. On the contrary, 
causation is measured with single construct especially by Chandler et al. (2011) to explain the 
entrepreneurial actions. Another strand of thinking in this perspective is entrepreneurial bricolage that 
describes the behavior of entrepreneur in terms of making the best use of available resources and 
creating value for the business by innovation facing a resources constraint (Baker & Nelson, 2005). 



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Researchers like McGee et.al. (2009) used the principles of self-efficacy to develop scales for 
entrepreneurial startups. They adjusted the principles of self-efficacy for entrepreneurial startups by 
creating these dimensions: searching (3 items); planning (4 items); marshalling (3 items); 
implementing-people (6 items); implementing-financial (3 items), and; attitude towards venturing (3 

items). The study used these measures of effectuation to generate data of entrepreneurial startups from 
agricultural sector of Pakistan.   
 
Table 1: Measurement Scales of Entrepreneurial Efficacy 
 

Scale Number of Factors 
Number of 

Items 
Reference 

DeNoble-scale 

5 
Developing new product or market opportunities; 
building an innovative environment;  initiating 
investor relationships;  defining core purpose; 

coping with unexpected challenges, and; 

developing critical human resources 

25 
De Noble, Jung, 
& Ehrlich, 1999 

Chen-scale 

5 

Marketing; innovation; management; risk-taking, 
and; financial control. 

20 
Chen, Greene, & 

Crick, 1998 

McGee-scale 

6 
Searching; planning; marshalling; implementing 
people; implementing financial, and; attitude 

towards venturing. 

22 

McGee, 
Peterson, 
Mueller, & 

Sequeira, 2009 

  

The McGee-scale used the factors identified by other researchers (e.g. Cox et al., 2002; Mueller & 
Goic, 2003) to develop their linear phase-based measure: searching, planning, marshalling, and 
implementing. The McGee-scale of Entrepreneurial Efficacy has-items measure consisting of six distinct 
factors specifically related to: searching, planning, marshalling, implementing people, implementing 

financial, and attitude towards venturing (McGee, Peterson, Mueller, & Sequeira, 2009): searching - (3 
items), planning - (4 items), marshalling - (3 items), implementing People - (6 items), implementing 
Financial - (3 items), and attitude towards Venturing - (3 items). Therefore, study used McGee-scale for 
assessing entrepreneurial efficacy. 

 
The analysis of pilot study revealed some of the items did not comply with the minimum 

statistical requirements to be considered consistent with construct of effectuation. As the study in using 

standardized scales of measurement, therefore, study did not modify the instruments instead tried to 
identify the respondents on the basis of general self-efficacy (GSE). The study identified the responses 
that were showing homogeneous or non-responses and those were either discarded or re-interviewed. 
The study then had to select those respondents that gave reliable responses for empirical analysis and 
scored high on the scale of GSE. 
 
 
 
 
 



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Table 2: Detail of Sample and Sub-Sample 
 

 
Sample Size in 

Pilot Study 
Proportion in 

Pilot Study 
Sample 

Size 
Missing 
Values 

Admissible for 
Analysis 

Punjab 97 37% 296 63 233 

KPK 68 29% 232 25 207 

Sindh 21 16% 128 29 99 

Balochistan 26 18% 144 23 121 

Total 212 100% 800 140 660 

 

The data was collected from all four provinces of the country and the instruments used were 
validated through EFA. The study also conducted the multi grout confirmatory factor analysis to 
ascertain the stability of the research instrument.    

 
As empirical analysis is based on structural equation modeling, the study conducted 

confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) for assessing validity and reliability of instruments to reach 
pertinent decisions and analysis about entrepreneurs in agricultural sector of Pakistan. CFA retains 
those factors that have standard factor weights from 0.5 to 0.7 for all items provided high degree of 
reliability (Cronbach’s Alpha > 0.7), average variance extracted (AVE > 0.5) and construct reliability 
(CR > 0.7) for all constructs (Hair, Jr., Hult, Ringle, & Sarstedt, 2017). As the comparison of different 
categories is done in the study, the study used information of CFA instead of Chi-Square test for 
assessing the significance of results. Chi-Square test works well for categories of same size, but is 

affected largely because of difference in degrees of freedom. The study produced different sized 
categories for comparison and CFA is used to make comparison as it is based mostly on average 
measures (Fornell & Larcker, 1981). 
 
4.      Results and Discussion  

Societies with high supply of entrepreneurs have a favorable culture and personality orientation 
that crates an entrepreneurial mindset (Minniti & Bygrave, 2003). Entrepreneurship is promoted in a 
society that has a dynamic orientation exhibiting such cognition that encourages an overall adjustment 
to change and support it within legal and economic framework (Foxcroft et al., 2002).  
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 



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Table 3: Invariance of Entrepreneurial Efficacy 
 

Model χ
2
 Δ χ

2
 Df Δ df CFI Δ CFI RMSEA 

Model 1: Configural invariance 89.23 - 147 - 0.911 - 0.03 

Model 2: Metric Invariance: first-
order factor loadings invariant 

112.33 23.1 161 14 0.901 0.01 0.039 

Model 3: Metric Invariance: first- 
and second-order factor loadings 
invariant 

132.47 20.14 168 4 0.899 0.002 0.048 

Model 4: Scalar Invariance: first- 
and second-order factor loadings 
and intercepts of first order 

167.98 35.51 182 14 0.881 0.018 0.06 

Model 5: Scalar Invariance: first- 
and second-order factor loadings, 
and intercepts of measured 

variables and first-order factors 

invariant 

202.67 34.69 186 4 0.801 0.08 0.11 

 
Individual and collective development of entrepreneurial culture is a reinforcing process that 

transcends not just at the cultural level but also at sub cultural level. Therefore, ethnicity and race are 
also differentiating factors that influence tendency of individuals and groups to indulge in creative and 
innovation based business activity.    

 
The results of invariance indicate that the second order scalar invariance could not be 

established but still the first order metric and scalar invariance along with second order scalar 
invariance is enough to establish that the research component is stable across the sub-sectors of 

agricultural sector of Pakistan. As the instrument is stable across all the four categories, therefore, the 
factor loadings of different items can be compared.  
 
Table 9       Province wise Constructs and Comparison of Item Means for Entrepreneurial 

Effectuation 
 

 Cronbach’s  
AVE 
CR 

Factor 
Loading 

 Punjab KPK Sindh Balochistan Punjab KPK Sindh Balochistan 

Searching — 
Brainstorm to 

generate a new idea 
Need for a new 

product or service 
Designing a 

product or service  
Planning —  

Estimate customer 
demand   

Determine a 
competitive price 

0.88 
0.57 

0.80 
 
0.82 
0.79 
0.83 
 
 
 
0 .86 
0.62 

0.71 
0.40 

0.44 
 
0.68 
0.79 
0.54 
 
 
 
0.78 
0.64 

0.70 
0.40 

0.45 
 
0.62 
0.79 
0.52 
 
 
 
0 .66 
0.32 

0.64 
0.38 

0.42 
 
0.67 
0.79 
0.51 
 
 
 
0.88 
0.74 

 
.77 

.76  

.78  
 
.87  
.84  
.82  
 
.71  
 
.81  

 
.62 

.57  

.71  
 
.67  
.66  
.62  
 
.63  
 
.77  

 
.52 

.67  

.71  
 
.57  
.64  
.72  
 
.61  
 
.48  

 
.65 

.55  

.66  
 
.51  
.56  
.72  
 
.71  
 
.77  



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Estimation of 
start-up funds and 

working  capital 
Designing 

marketing campaign  
Marshaling — 

Shared Vision 
Networking 

outside 
Clarity of 

identifying business 
 needs and ideas  

Implementing-people 
— 

Supervise 

employees  
Recruiting and 

hiring  
Delegating of work 

and  
responsibilities 
Day-to-day 

problems handling  
Inspiring and 

encouraging teams  
Training 

employees  

Implementing-financial 
— 

Maintaining 
financial records 

Managing financial 

assets  
Assessing financial 

statements  
Attitude toward 
venturing — 

Worthless/worthw

hile  
Disappointing/rew

arding  
Negative/positive  

0.76 
 
 
0 .81 

0.60 
0.59 
 
 
 
 
 
0.84 
0.72 
0.93 
 

0 .82 
0.72 
0.93 

0.77 
 
 
0.79 

0.75 
0.61 
 
 
 
 
 
0.88 
0.71 
0.95 
 

0.84 
0.72 
0.92 
 

0.56 
 
 
0 .73 

0.79 
0.93 
 
 
 
 
 
0.74 
0.75 
0.85 
 

0.77 
0.74 
0.87 

0.59 
 
 
0.84 

.081 
0.89 
 
 
 
 
 
0.69 
0.77 
0.79 
 

0.71 
0.75 
0.83 

.86  

.71  
 
 

.78  

.77 

.80  
 
.84  
.81  
.74  
 
.88  
.86  
.81  

 
.91 
.71  
.91  

.59  

.65  
 
 

.71  

.72 

.70  
 
.72  
.73  
.64  
 
.89  
.87  
.88  

 
.91 
.81  
.78 

.79  

.36  
 
 

.78  

.77 

.80  
 
.77  
.71  
.74  
 
.68  
.78  
.71  

 
.88 
.71  
.68  

.61  

.71  
 
 

.71  

.72 

.70  
 
.72  
.63  
.61  
 
.72  
.67  
.58  

 
.71 
.61  
.78 

Punjab: χ
2

= 143.34, p 

< .00; GFI = .94; CFI = 
.88; RMSEA = .05 

KPK: χ
2

 = 

116.18, p < 
.00; GFI = .90; 
NFI = .90; 
RMSEA = .06 

Sindh: χ
2

 = 64.11, p < .00; GFI 

= .91; CFI = .91; RMSEA = .05 

Balochistan: χ
2

 = 94.68, p 

< .00; GFI = .92; CFI = 
.90; RMSEA = .04 

AVE=Average Variance Extracted; CR=Construct Reliability 



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There are few studies that have studied the impact of family and national culture on self-efficacy 
of individual that intend to be entrepreneurs (Bandura, 2012). But Bandura (2012) asserts that people 
do not spend life neither independent of the society not entirely accordingly to the wishes and 
inspirations of others. 

 
The interplay and interdependencies of individuals create reactive and harmonizing behaviors 

shaping cooperation and conflict situation that have varying degree of manifestation depending upon 
the social structure to diffuse or enforce them. Therefore, self-efficacy also has to develop within 
individual self and the societal setting individual interacts with. Entrepreneurial self-efficacy is thus 
related with likelihood of an individual to follow an entrepreneurial life style which is different from 
successfully crating an entrepreneurial business startup (Farah & Ali, 2018). The respondents of the 
study are form different regions of Pakistan, therefore, the study compared differences in 
entrepreneurial self-efficacy due to belonging to different regions. This analysis does not address the 
issue of difference in self-efficacy of entrepreneurs from different ethnic backgrounds working in a 
common geographical region. 

 
The results reveal that the entrepreneurs belonging to Punjab have highest level of 

entrepreneurial self-efficacy while it is lowest in Balochistan. Entrepreneurs from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 
and Sindh seem to be having almost similar entrepreneurial self-efficacy. The differentiating factor in 
Punjab is the high degree of need to search for entrepreneurial opportunities as compared to other 
provinces. Once the entrepreneurial opportunity is identified, then the entrepreneurs in Punjab put a 
lot of effort to plan and make the startup a reality. The information about social and professional 
networks is also easily available to them and there is relatively more developed markets that can help in 

making better decisions about pricing and positioning. The factor markets are also more developed as 
compared to other provinces and help the entrepreneur to decide upon the quality and level of 
production at the inception of the firm. The relative size of cities is also larger in Punjab and it has more 
agglomeration impact than rest of the country except Karachi. The organizational founding is also 

subject to entrepreneurial potential of the region in particular and economy in general. Therefore, large 
cities and information networks provide a conducive environment for new entrepreneurial activity. 
Individual entrepreneurs generally in organized markets and highly agglomerated regions tend to start 
modest which help them to attract investments for growth of their firms. Therefore, there is a 
reinforcing impact of ecology and culture on entrepreneurial activity which is also seen in populous 
regions of Pakistan. Possible reasons for relatively low level of entrepreneurial efficacy in Balochistan 
may be due to less population density but in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is due to turbulent circumstances for 
more than three decades. A large portion of Pashto speaking population is doing business in other 
provinces outside Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The interviews with entrepreneurs revealed that instead of 
expanding the business and launching big they prefer to expand the product lines. This fact can also be 
verified by looking at the results of the analysis.  

 
5.      Conclusion and Recommendations 
 There exists a difference in entrepreneurial self-efficacy among the people belonging to different 
provinces in Pakistan. Entrepreneurs in Pakistan are not in general well versed with letting the others 
to share their vision due to paying less attention to marketing and image building of their business. It 
can be inferred from the analysis that the effectual enterprise development in Pakistan has a limited 
growth potential due to paying less attention to marketing and financial management. This may have 
implications for entrepreneurs to have export outlook of their businesses especially when due to CPEC 
and other international commitments economy of Pakistan is open to foreign competition. The policy 
intervention should be reflective of the situation of each province, and public policy related to business 



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environment should be more liberal while in other provinces supportive of entrepreneurs through 
institutional support to new business developers. 
 
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