investigate early international entrepreneurship (international new ventures) in China. The extent of early international … entrepreneurship in China is significant: 65 per cent of the exporting firms start export operations within three years. Foreign …

Existing indicators of entrepreneurial activity (such as the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, Entrepreneurship … Barometer, FORA.s Entrepreneurship Index, OECD and Economic Commission.s sets of indicators, among others) and several variables … that have been considered good proxies for entrepreneurship during the last decades seem to be unsuitable to capture the …

entrepreneurship and identify computer hardware and software as key sectors for NTEs and high-technology development. …

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 …

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