Entrepreneurship in China

• Main Author: Yang, Keming.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.
• Subjects: Entrepreneurship > China.; Business enterprises > Case studies. > China; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Entrepreneurship.; China > Economic conditions > 2000-; Electronic books.
• Online Access: ebrary; View fulltext via EzAccess; MyiLibrary

The emergence of China as a major world economy is a development of great significance. There has, however, been little detailed work on the grassroots level of entrepreneurship in China. This innovative book addresses this gap, investigating how an economic system dominated by central plans, bureau...

Table of Contents:

• The puzzle of China, the puzzle of entrepreneurship
• Rules and entrepreneurship
• Institutional holes and double entrepreneurship
• Institutional change and entrepreneurial strategies
• The entrepreneurial process in China
• The entrepreneur, the bureaucrats, and the journalists: Huo Hongmin and the Huaqi Group
• The limits on playing institutional holes: Mou Qizhong and the Nande Group
• Entrepreneurial authority and institutional autonomy: Xu Wenrong and the Hengdian Group
• Double gambles.