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The paper investigates the effects of the Zimbabwean national culture on enterprise development. In-depth interviews were carried out with fifteen (15) entrepreneurs and seven (7) members of the community whose role was to support entrepreneurs. It was established that the national culture impeded enterprise development and the factors identified are: bad debt culture, let's-pull-him-down syndrome, dependency syndrome, high living, and absence of role models, refusal to accept entrepreneurship, employing relatives and poor quality goods and services. To promote enterprise development, countries need to identify factors that make up the national culture. The paper also identifies the desired enterprise culture.

Success and failure of enterprise development is dependent on both the entrepreneur and the environment in which entrepreneurial activities take place. The entrepreneur is motivated to start an enterprise if the environment is supportive and is discouraged if the environment is not supportive. Only governments are better suited to influence the financial, education and training, legal and regulatory, political and economic environments, whose effects affect enterprise development. Failure by governments to address the environmental factors leads to failure in enterprise development. The paper argues the governments to ensure conducive environments for positive enterprise development.