Does government paternalistic care promote entrepreneurship in China? Evidence from the China Employer-Employee Survey

Cheng, Hong; Hu, Dezhuang; Xu, Chengyu; Zhang, Kai; Fan, Hanbing

doi:10.1080/17538963.2016.1274004

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“…On the other hand, research conducted in a more socialistic culture, such as Cheng et al's (2017) study of the paternalistic care provided by the Government of China, concludes that governmental interventions actually exert a negative impact on entrepreneurship by weakening its innovative inclination. However, Cheng et al (2017) also admitted that these results are limited to the manufacturing sector and to China excluding other countries. This supports the argument presented in this study where the governments of the GCC countries have quite a unique relation to their local economies and therefore need to be studied separately to understand the moderating role they have on entrepreneurial investments' effect on their economy.…”

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The moderating role of governmental support in the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic growth

Saberi¹,

Hamdan

2019

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to find out the extent to which governments of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries play a moderating role in the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic growth. Design/methodology/approach The study uses a 10-year time series (2006-2015) for six GCC countries: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates. Secondary sources of data were collected from The World Bank database, general available statistics on the GCC, the Global Entrepreneurship Index from the Global Entrepreneurship and Development Institute (GEDI) and the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) database. Findings Results indicate that governmental support has a significant moderating effect on the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic growth in the GCC. Furthermore, the strongest indicators of entrepreneurial investments in the Gulf have been found to be risk capital and high growth, which indicate a rapid growth in entrepreneurial investments. The lowest scoring indicators were found to be technology absorption and innovation process. Research limitations/implications Despite the necessary measures taken to assure standard results such as testing data validity, care should be taken when generalizing the research results mainly because the time series of the study (2006-2015) could have been affected by the International and Financial Crisis, though the study has taken this into consideration. Originality/value This study has clarified the significant role of GCC governments in moderating the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic growth. Thus, the findings of this study are important because they help the GCC governments recognize their significant role and hence to utilize this role by supporting new and existing entrepreneurs particularly through regulatory quality, risk capital, technology absorption and process innovation. Furthermore, this study proves the extent to which entrepreneurship can help enhance the GCC economic growth, hence elaborating the importance of the sustainable resource, such as the human capital, in achieving diversification of sources to move from an oil-based to a more diversified economy.

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The moderating role of governmental support in the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic growth

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Hamdan

2019

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“…The topos of responsibility is specifically realised by modal verbs and the strategy of lists of three. Governmental paternalism in the news about Chinese Muslims conforms with the paternalism of Beijing's policies towards ethnic minorities in which filial piety, the prioritisation of people's necessity, and the government's responsibility to take care of its citizens emerge (Cheng et al, 2017;Saich, 2012;Wang and Liu, 2018).…”

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“…The paternalistic tradition from the Chinese government maintains the principle of parent officials (i.e. Fumu guan) – fulfilling the duty to take care of its citizens (Cheng et al, 2017; Ling, 1994). CD combines a dual approach of mutually inclusive support for transformative social policies and action on terror directed at the outgroup.…”

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“…Paternalism is prevalent in Chinese government policy (Anand, 2018; Cheng et al, 2017; Wang and Liu, 2018), which has been studied extensively in political science but seemingly under-investigated regarding how it is construed in discourse. As an ideology, it is defined as the restriction of an individual’s autonomy in favour of governmental policies to promote citizens’ welfare (Le Grand and New, 2015).…”

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“…Governmental paternalism, in policy terms, has several distinct and idiosyncratic features in the Chinese context in line with Le Grand and New's definition. First, officials in China have been named as parent officials, who take responsibility for citizens (Cheng et al, 2017). The second feature is 'putting people first' which primarily seeks solutions for Chinese citizens (Wang and Liu, 2018).…”

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