...Andrew Atherton; Zhan Gao Purpose This study analyses the growth patterns of listed Chinese companies in China during the 2000s and 2010s. Two key questions are considered: firstly, does finance affect firm growth in China? And, secondly, do private enterprises grow more quickly than state-owned...

.... It then uses a new legitimacy framework that includes self-legitimacy to examine the issues a group of educators in China encountered when implementing new constructivist entrepreneurship modules in their non-entrepreneurship curricula. Design/methodology/approach The researchers utilized focus groups...

... theory to explore the means at hand and the kinds of practices SEs in China employ to mobilize resources to address persistent social problems. Design/methodology/approach Adopting a qualitative multiple case design, the research contribution is developed in the context of four SEs based in two...

... intensity, firm ownership and CEO duality moderate this relationship. Design/methodology/approach To test the hypotheses, the authors used a sample of firms drawn from China's ChiNext database (2008–2017). After an initial screening, the final sample consists of 251 CEOs from 239 companies. Data on CEO...

... logistics industry in China. Narrative and semi-structured interviews explored emerging aspects beyond the established model of leadership associated with reputation-building. This led to in-depth, thick descriptions, broadening our understanding of leadership and reputation-building. Findings SME...

... the transaction cost's perspective, an exploratory multiple-case study was conducted with data collected from six NSPs in China. Findings The results reveal that four types of NSP services (mentoring and training, social event, promotion of REs and accreditation of resource holders (RHs)) have both individual...

... of this study is to advance knowledge on family firms' entry mode choices by examining the linkage between target market context, especially in the emerging economies of China and India, and the dominant family firm logic of keeping ownership and control in the family. We use an exploratory multiple case...

... to be assessed by crowd investors to manage extreme risk and uncertainty occurred in early-stage investments. This work also demonstrates that virtual world has its limitations to build interpersonal trust for managing extreme risk. China Entrepreneurial finance Equity crowdfunding Early-stage investors...

... at their point of intersection and identifies gaps and oversights. Drawing on case studies from China, the paper explores different patterns in which trust develops in second-generation small- and medium-sized Chinese family businesses and their varying effects on entrepreneurship. What is social capital...

...Lei Wang; Leonel Prieto; Kim T. Hinrichs; Homero Aguirre Milling Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relative levels of multiple individual and environmental factors that influence self‐employment motivation in China, Mexico, and the USA and the effect of each factor on motivation...

... China Finland Russia United States of America What drives entrepreneurs? What is different about the people who form new ventures, champion new products and services, and seek the “creative destruction” of industry paradigms and established ways of serving customers’ needs? What aspects...

... over 1,000 students at universities in the USA, Spain, and China. Findings Across cultures, university students share generally similar views on motivations and barriers to entrepreneurship, but with some interesting differences. Further, while cultural and social dimensions explain only a small...

...Ming‐Huei Chen; Chung‐Jen Chen; Cheng‐An Tsai; Chao‐Tung Wen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of relational embeddedness on entrepreneurship in Taiwanese subsidiaries in China that are facing an uncertain and emerging environment. Design/methodology/approach...

... the relationship between the desire to achieve and entrepreneurship in China more precisely, Achievement Striving is examined here for its importance among entrepreneurs, non‐entrepreneurs and potential entrepreneurs in Mainland China. Based on achievement theory and research that found entrepreneurs to be high...