It has been increasingly recognized that entrepreneurs play a crucial role in successful economies. Yet research on entrepreneurs is rather limited. In this paper we study 414 Chinese entrepreneurs and 561 Chinese non-entrepreneurs with similar age and education characteristics. We find that...

In this article, I compare personal networks of Chinese and Russian entrepreneurs in terms of network structure, relationships and resources accessed in networks. The Chinese data is composed of longitudinal phone interviews with 94 Internet entrepreneurs in Beijing, and the Russian data is...