Analysis of the Cultural Factors Impacts on the Development of Entrepreneurship the Case Study of Garut District

Entrepreneurship has been recognized as an important characteristics for the society toaccelerate the advancement of their quality of life. Various aspects were identified havesignificant impact on the development of entrepreneurship such as education, age,culture, etc .In rural area where the population has rather similar low education level,the research tends to focuses on the impact of the culturel aspects on theentrepreneurship will be more appropriate. The research was conducted in the Cilawuand Bayongbong areas which are located in Garut District. 24 respondents which areresidents of those areas were withdrawn to fullfill the distributed questionnaire. Theresearch applied Four of Hoffstede's cultural dimensions to describe inter-culturallycomparable aspects, namely (1) individualism vs. collectivism;(2) masculinity vs.Femininit;(3) avoidance of uncertainty, and (4) life orientation on a long term. Researchresults indicate various differences in the dimensions of avoidance of uncertainty andorientation on a long term. The Cilawu respondents are stronger in avoidance ofuncertainty and weaker in long term orientation compared with the Bayongbongrespondents. The difference may be caused by natural conditions and number ofreligious school at each district, thinking pattern, motivation and life goals of bothcommunities. To enable continuous growth of entrepreneurship in both districts, the roleof the regional government of the Garut regency is needed to create a conducive socioculturalenvironment by observing the cultural aspects which have the potential ofcreating the trend of entrepreneurship in each district