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The Development of Entrepreneurship in Transitional Economies : The Perspective of Chinese and South African Entrepreneurs

Dolles, Harald; Babo, Michael - 2003

the Republic of SouthAfrica (SA) has taken place. In the development and transformation process, entrepreneurship plays an …

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Sex Imbalance, Marriage Competition, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from rural China

Yuan, Yan; Rong, Zhao; Xu, Lihe - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012

It is well acknowledged that the entrepreneurship is important to economic development. In this paper, we suggest a … gender-related determinant of entrepreneurship, local sex imbalance. Using a 2009 rural finance survey, we examine how this …

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UNDERLYING LOGICS THAT TRANSFORM SURVIVAL OR SUBSISTENT ENTREPRENEURSHIP CLUSTERS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

HE, XIAOHONG; CHI, RENYONG - In: Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE) 18 (2013) 03, pp. 1350018-1

survival entrepreneurial clusters can evolve into innovative industrial networks. By conceptualizing survival entrepreneurship …

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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis

Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

To date there has been few systematic and comparative empirical analyses of the nature of economic development in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of structural change between 1980 and 2010, focusing on the...

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Credit Constraints, Organizational Choice, and Returns to Capital: Evidence from a Rural Industrial Cluster in China

Ruan, Jianqing; Zhang, Xiaobo - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

Traditional economic theory posits that a well functioning capital market is a necessary condition for industrialization and economic growth. However, in reality it is observed that micro and small enterprises are ubiquitous because entrepreneurs can set up business in low-return activities with...

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Burgeoning Chinese postpartum nursing enterprises and birth tourism - the perspective from transaction cost entrepreneurship

Yan, Ho-Don; Chen, Chyong Ling Judy - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 10 (2014) 4, pp. 502-518

The one-month confinement (or doing the month, DM) for post-partum women is a tradition that has been practiced for millennia in Chinese society. Tedious preparations and numerous procedures of DM incur high transaction costs when purchasing the service from the market. To assure the practice of...

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Credit Constraints, Job Mobility, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Property Reform in China

Wang, Shing-Yi - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 94 (2012) 2, pp. 532-551

entrepreneurship. I find an increase in self-employment following a reform in urban China that allowed state employees who were renting … mechanisms that might explain how the reform increased entrepreneurship. I find evidence that the reform reduced labor mobility …

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Angel investors’ selection criteria: A comparative institutional perspective

Ding, Zhujun; Sun, Sunny; Au, Kevin - In: Asia Pacific Journal of Management 31 (2014) 3, pp. 705-731

Despite the important role of angel investors as critical financial providers for new ventures, little is known regarding how the institutions present in very different institutional environments impact their investment decisions. While angel investors might be expected to make decisions based...

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Entrepreneurship in China: empirical results from two provinces

Krug, B.; Hendrischke, H. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2002

China therefore entrepreneurship depends crucially on the ability to establish firms, i.e. to find organisational forms for … entrepreneurship depends on mechanisms for co-ordinating individual or organisational behaviour of firms. These mechanisms were lacking … components of (private) entrepreneurship. One is the search for organisational forms conforming to the situational constraints …

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China Incorporated

Krug, B.; Hendrischke, H. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2001

The development of entrepreneurship and a private business sector in China pose various challenges to analysis. On the …

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