ENTREPRENEURSHIP CURSE IN NATURAL-RESOURCES-ABUNDANT AREAS: IMPACTS OF OCCUPATIONAL STRUCTURES AND INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT

doi:10.13776/j.cnki.resourcesindustries.20250702.007

Abstract

Abstract: Encouraging entrepreneurship is a key basis to power the regional economy, but start-up cultures lack in natural-resources-abundant areas, disadvantageous for structural transformation and sustainable development in local economy. This paper, from perspective of occupational structures and institutional environment, explores the mechanism of natural resources occurrence on entrepreneurship, studies the “entrepreneurship curse”in natural-resources-abundant areas, and takes empirical test from 1% population sampling survey data in 2005. Natural resource occurrences deeply shape the occupational structures and institutional environment of regional industrial system, forming a regional environment disagreeable for entrepreneurship, the more abundant resources, the less entrepreneurship. Resources industry is of typical large industrial features with higher standardization in its occupational structures, unfavourable for shaping start-up personality. Non-complete marketized property trading system of natural resources lean to governmental corruption, worsening institutional environment, not good for spreading entrepreneurship. Resources economy bears internal features of regional economic system unfavourable for cultivating entrepreneurship, regional entrepreneurship can be further limited under a poor start-up external environment. Non-start up culture shaped by natural resource occurrences will further continuously constrain entrepreneurship through intergenerational transmission. Entrepreneurship curse in natural resources-abundant areas is a natural fruit of social evolution from resources economy under external environment and intergenerational transmission, emphasizing the significance of social ecological construction and formal institutional improvement on cultivating entrepreneurship, offering references to boost competitiveness and to enhance economic resilience.

Key words: natural resource occurrences, entrepreneurship, occupational structure, institutional environment

摘要： 激发企业家精神是提升区域经济活力的重要基础之一，但自然资源丰裕的地区往往呈现出匮乏的创业文化，不利于地区经济的结构转型与可持续发展。论文试图从职业结构和制度环境的视角切入，深入探索自然资源禀赋影响企业家精神的作用机制，解析资源丰裕地区的“企业家精神诅咒”，并利用2005 年全国1% 人口抽样调查数据进行实证检验。结果表明，自然资源禀赋深刻塑造了区域产业系统的职业结构与制度环境，形成了不利于企业家精神文化生成的区域环境，进而导致自然资源禀赋优越的地区往往缺乏企业家精神。资源型产业具有典型的大型产业特征，职业结构的任务标准化程度较高，不利于创业人格特征的塑造。自然资源的非完全市场化产权交易体制容易滋生政府腐败，由此恶化制度环境，不利于企业家精神的发扬。因此，资源型经济形成了不利于企业家精神培育的区域经济系统内部特征，而且，在较差的创业外部制度环境影响下，地区企业家精神的激发被进一步限制。此外，地区自然资源禀赋塑造的非创业型文化会进一步通过代际传递持续性地限制企业家精神。论文研究结果表明资源丰裕地区的企业家精神诅咒是资源型经济在外部环境和代际传递等多重渠道作用下社会系统演化的自然结果，强调了社会生态建设与正式制度改进对于培育企业家精神的重要意义，对于地区如何提升竞争优势与增强经济韧性等问题提供了有益参考。

关键词: 自然资源禀赋, 企业家精神, 职业结构, 制度环境

CLC Number:

F270

MAO Qiliang, LIU Yiting. ENTREPRENEURSHIP CURSE IN NATURAL-RESOURCES-ABUNDANT AREAS: IMPACTS OF OCCUPATIONAL STRUCTURES AND INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT[J]. Resources & Industries, 2025, 27(4): 23-35.

毛琦梁, 刘亦婷. 自然资源丰裕地区的企业家精神诅咒：职业结构与制度环境的影响[J]. 资源与产业, 2025, 27(4): 23-35.

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