The paper describes the emergence of entrepreneurship in Shanxi province based on fieldwork in the last 6 years … of entrepreneurship can be expected within China. In short, local cultures matter …

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 …