Entrepreneurship is often cited as the single most important factor
in economic development. Although this contention is limited mostly
to the realm of private business activities, entrepreneurship is
also present in governmental organizations. Public entrepreneurs,
like their private counterparts, are agents of change.
This study hypothesizes that although public entrepreneurship
requires availability of capital and presence of educated public
and administrators, to be effective it demands also cultural values
of 'individualism', 'need for achievement', and 'need for
certainty'. Or, in other words, that culture and history matter.
The hypothesis is tested in four historically and culturally
distinctive regions in Poland. The research shows that despite
forty-five years of communist rule stressing the uniformity of the
"new socialist society," differences in the realm of cultural and
political values remained. These, in turn, influenced other areas
of public life. Almost immediately after the decentralization of
local governments in 1991, some local governments showed more
entrepreneurial spirit than others. At least part of these
differences can be accounted by better socioeconomic situation of a
region, but culture seems to be playing even a larger role in this
entrepreneurial race.
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