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Business and management in China: A review of empirical research in leading international journals

Quer, Diego; Claver, Enrique; Rienda, Laura - In: Asia Pacific Journal of Management 24 (2007) 3, pp. 359-384

China’s growing economic importance has led to a significant increase in the volume of empirical research about business and management in this country during the last few years. This study reviews the 180 empirical papers focusing on the Chinese context that were published in 12 leading...

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The place of Austrian economics in contemporary entrepreneurship research

Klein, Peter; Bylund, Per - In: The Review of Austrian Economics 27 (2014) 3, pp. 259-279

We review the place of Austrian economics in contemporary entrepreneurship and management research, focusing on the … theoretical and applied work on entrepreneurship, even though Kirzner’s larger research program has not been well understood. We … CitationID="CR65">1921</CitationRef>) and more recent contributors. We conclude that the entrepreneurship and management …

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Corporate Governance and Entrepreneurial Firms

Audretsch, David B.; Lehmann, Erik E. - In: Foundations and Trends(R) in Entrepreneurship 10 (2014) 1-2, pp. 1-160

Although topics in corporate governance have been present in literature for almost a century, most of the theoretical and empirical work has focused on large and public companies, or the "<italic>Berle-Means-Corporation</italic>" in which fragmented ownership, caused by the separation of ownership and control,...

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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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