Baum,  J Robert <br/><br/>
Nationality and work role interactions 
a cultural contrast of Israeli and U.S. entrepreneurs' versu 
 -  1993 
 - 499 - 512 
<br/><br/> The globalization of business ventures and the parallel search for sources of international competitive advantage have stimulated research relating cultural differences to entrepreneurial and managerial behaviors. Recent work by McGrath, MacMillan, and Scheinberg (1992) encouraged studies of managers and entrepreneurs in different cultures, suggesting that these comparisons may  ......shed additional light into the interrelations between social structure, wealth creation, and cultural beliefs (McGrath el at. 1992, p. 116).  This study follows that advice. Cultural differences are powerful determinants of behavior, and many studies support the notion that managerial behavior must adapt to the national cultural setting to achieve success. A growing stream of entrepreneurial behavior research has explored differences in motivational needs between entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs of different countries, and found parallel differences across cultures. Given these views, we might expect to find need differences between entrepreneurs and managers within countries however, some entrepreneurship researchers have concluded that U.S. managers and entrepreneurs are more alike than...