Structuring Organizational Culture to Complement Poland’s National Culture – An Approach for Achieving High Impact Entrepreneurship

Abstract

National culture plays a strong role in enabling entrepreneurial organizations to be successful. Among other things, it can foster innovation, risk-taking, and flexibility in response to environmental uncertainty. With a supportive organizational culture, firms can achieve even greater successes in overall performance. This paper analyzes Poland’s score and ranking on the Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index to determine how culture can help or hinder the country’s ability to develop high impact entrepreneurship. National culture is analyzed using Hofstede’s Six-Dimensional Model. Implications for developing an organizational culture, which fosters high-impact entrepreneurship and simultaneously complements Poland’s values and traditions, are proposed.