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Return migrants : The rise of new entrepreneurs in rural China
Démurger, Sylvie; Xu, Hui - HAL - 2011
This paper analyzes return migrants' occupational choice upon their return to their home village, by using an original rural household survey conducted in Wuwei county (Anhui province, China) in 2008. We apply two complementary approaches : a horizontal comparative analysis of occupational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323941
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Financing Entrepreneurship and the Old-Boy Network
Inci, Eren; Parker, Simon C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We study entrepreneurs' start-up financing from banks and local financiers. An informal network, whose membership cannot be observed by outsiders, conveys the good signals it gets about the hidden types of network entrepreneurs to local financiers, which are then reflected in different loan...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646307
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Early International Entrepreneurship in China: Extent and Determinants
Naude, Wim; Rossouw, Stephanie - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004973346
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Entrepreneurship, Development, and the Spatial Context Retrospect and Prospect
Nijkamp, Peter - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009
Entrepreneurship has been a topical issue in the business administration literature, but in the past decade a wave of … interest can be observed on the role of entrepreneurship in the economic growth literature. This paper aims to highlight the … various contributions to the entrepreneurship literature from the perspective of regional economic development. After a broad …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004973358
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International Mobility of Engineers and the Rise of Entrepreneurship in the Periphery
Saxenian, AnnaLee - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059879
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China`s Entrepreneurs
Yueh, Linda - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007
networks are significant in entrepreneurship, while women and older workers are less likely to become self-employed unless they …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005047896
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Entrepreneurs' Access to Private Equity in China: The Role of Social Capital
Batjargal, Bat; Liu, Mannie M. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002
Drawing on Social network theory, this article argues for enhancing effects of social capital of entrepreneurs on investment selection decisions of venture capitalists (to invest versus not to invest), and main effects of social capital on investment process decisions such as venture valuation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005489896
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Asian Century: A Comparative Analysis of Growth in China, India and other Asian Economies
Basu, Kaushik - eSocialSciences - 2010
The paper argues that if the Chinese economy had failed, mainstream economics would have described this as completely predictable, given the extent and nature of involvement of the Chinese state in the functioning of markets and the economy. The fact that China has succeeded therefore should...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008752338
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Return migrants : The rise of new entrepreneurs in rural China
Démurger, Sylvie; Xu, Hui - HAL - 2010
This paper analyzes return migrants' occupational choice upon their return to their home village, by using an original rural household survey conducted in Wuwei county (Anhui province, China) in 2008. We apply two complementary approaches : a horizontal comparative analysis of occupational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008789311
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Anatomy of cluster development in China: The case of health biotech clusters
Conlé, Marcus; Taube, Markus - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität … - 2010
Focussing on China's health biotech clusters the study explores the anatomy of interaction in as well as between various clusters. While the literature has identified the existence of a dense network of durable interactions among firms and between firms and academia at a particular location as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008682609