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MBA Review Magazine:
Peer Effects and Entrepreneurship
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Good entrepreneurs possess the capacity to write the fate of any nation. This is the reason why governments are facilitating entrepreneurship and globalization. This article gives an insight into ways in which peers effect an individual's decision to become an entrepreneur.

 
 
 

Low rate loans, subsidies, tax reliefs and construction of Special Economic Zones (SEZs), etc. are some of the methods by which governments encourage entrepreneurial activity. It is so, because entrepreneurs not only generate profits for themselves but also help the economy and the government to deal with several kinds of social and economic issues. They perform financial exchanges, pay taxes, generate employment, produce the necessary goods and services, etc., in an economy. Hence it becomes quite essential for everybody to study the factors which affect individual career choices. These factors can be family backgrounds, social backgrounds, government facilitations or peer effects. Among all these factors, the effects of peers are the most decisive factor that persuades one to look for entrepreneurship as a career choice. Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Michael Dell and Steve Jobs all had been doing jobs before starting their own multimillion dollar businesses. This could mean they had been influenced by someone or something at their workplace that must have persuaded them to start a business, and today they have earned their places in history. Their earnings have reached astronomical heights and they are also generating employment in the thousands every year. In this way they are lending a helping hand to the economy, society and the governments of the various nations where their businesses exist.

Good entrepreneurs are the lifeblood of any country. They are the people who start ventures and provide employment to other people too in the process. Indirectly, they help those countries in solving their unemployment issues to some extent. This is the reason why different countries of the world promote entrepreneurship by different ways be it providing loans, giving subsidies or reducing taxes. In other words, they believe in the following process

 
 
 

MBA Review Magazine, Entrepreneurship, Globalization, Special Economic Zones, SEZs, Software Services, Microsoft Corporation, Multinational Technology Corporation, Bureaucratic Organizations, Entrepreneurial Opportunities, Personality Traits, Entrepreneurial Activities.