Week 3 Reading Reflection

My biggest surprise from this reading came from the list of distinguishing characteristics associated with people that have type A personalities.  From previous personality tests I have always tested differently.  However, these descriptions describe me to a Tee.  When I read them aloud to my wife, she was wondering what I was writing that I had to describe myself.  When I told her that I didn’t write it, she stated that the author must have known me.  I was quite surprised to determine that I had a type A personality.  The most confusing part for me centered on the portions related to Ethics.  There seems to be a large gap in what is and is not considered ethical and legal.  One thing about this I would have loved to see the author address is how an entrepreneur’s nationality and belief system play into this behavior.  There are places in the world where we look at what the inhabitants consider moral and legal that we would never consider here in the United States due to how society and the law view it.  If I could ask the author two questions they would be the following:

Question #1- In the study of entrepreneurial cognitive research referred to in the beginning of the chapter.  How do you feel that continued research into this topic will change the concept of entrepreneurship in the future?

Question #2 - How does the difference in the view of societies of what is considered ethical and legal affect the entrepreneurial relationship between countries?

There was nothing that I felt the author was wrong or that I disagreed with.  My only real question that stood out above all else related to ethics.  Due to the internet, trade agreements, and various other business activities that occur around the world on a daily basis, the world is not as big as it used to be. An entrepreneur back in the 60’s would only have to really worry about how his business was affected in the locale where the business was located.  In 2016, an entrepreneur could easily be doing business in 6 different countries in one day.  It would seem to me that the differences in these societies would murky the ethical waters even more.