Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Funding -- 1. China's entrepreneurial transformation -- Introduction -- Entrepreneurship in the age of reform in China -- Outline of the book -- Notes -- 2. China's entrepreneurs...

Standard explanations of the decisions made by new firm founders when acquiring financing to start ventures tend to refer to the efficiency and economic rationales underpinning such choices. In this paper, a pecking order approach is applied to twenty-six cases of new venture creation to test...