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Credit Constraints, Organizational Choice, and Returns to Capital: Evidence from a Rural Industrial Cluster in China
Ruan, Jianqing; Zhang, Xiaobo - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444782
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Patterns of Managerial Ties in Entrepreneurial Firms in China: A comparative study of economy hotel chains of different ownership types
Liu, Zhaoping; Huang, Songshan Sam; Hsu, Cathy - 2010
benefit from managerial ties. The study contributes to both entrepreneurship and social network theories by summarizing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467744
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Educating generationE in Australasia : US lessons, New Zealand experience
Frederick, Howard - 2005
Australasian countries have huge numbers of young entrepreneurs. Yet the state of entrepreneurship education in this … field study in North America and Europe to examine inter-disciplinary initiatives that take the study of entrepreneurship … and categorises best-practice models of enterprise education, focussing especially on non-business entrepreneurship and …
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Innovation und Unternehmertum in der VR China
Seyfart, J?rg - 2005
-evolutorischer Unternehmer als Tr?ger wirtschaftlicher Entwicklung entfaltet, wird das Ziel des weiteren wirtschaftlichen Aufschwungs erreicht …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010881194
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010913549
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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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