Cross-Cultural Differences of Error Climate between Chinese and German Entrepreneurial Firms

Entrepreneurial firms´ actions can be easily away from the predetermined goals or directions when in developing, which are errors. It would be critical for surviving how the firms cope with those errors. Our research defined the error climate as a general tendency to errors of the employees. The research used the free software, Mx, and studied four industries, including IT and software, catering and hotel, machinery and parts, and construction, to find the characteristics of the error climates of Chinese entrepreneurial firms and German entrepreneurial firms, and compared the differences between the error climates of them. The results suggest that Chinese entprepreueurial firms pay more attention to solve problems caused by errors and German entrepreneurial firms pay more attention to encourage employees communicating when an error occurs. The implication of the results for IT industry is also included.