Moral boundaries: how sacred values and cultural tightness influence entrepreneurial action
研究了基于宗教的神圣价值观和文化紧密度如何限制创业行动，发现神圣价值观与创业行动负相关，且在文化紧密的社会中这种关系更强。
This study examines how religiously grounded sacred values and cultural tightness shape entrepreneurial action. Scholarship on religious entrepreneurship often emphasizes how practices connected to believed superhuman powers motivate and support entrepreneurial processes and outcomes. We highlight a complementary perspective by theorizing that sacred values work as moral commitments rooted in religious practices that limit the action individuals view as acceptable under uncertainty. We further argue that the influence of sacred values depends on the cultural contexts in which entrepreneurial action is embedded. Using multilevel data from more than 14,000 individuals across 11 countries, we find that sacred values are negatively associated with entrepreneurial action and that this relationship is significantly stronger in culturally tight societies, where strong normative enforcement reinforces the boundaries associated with sacred values. These findings advance the emerging subfield of religious entrepreneurship by demonstrating how religiously grounded sacred values constrain entrepreneurial action and by clarifying how cultural norms shape the force of these constraints.