Entrepreneurship in China: An overview

Abstract

This article offers an overview of entrepreneurship in China to complement this special issue of International Small Business Journal: 'Exploring Entrepreneurial Activity and Small Business Issues in the Chinese Economy'. A broad review of entrepreneurship research is provided and linked to the context of research in China with several principal topics summarised. These include an examination of recent research on entrepreneurial firms in China, the attributes of Chinese entrepreneurs and the challenges they face. Finally, future research avenues are suggested.

Everyday-Life Business Deviance Among Chinese SME Owners

“…Moreover, we substantially complement research on the opportunity reasoning of entrepreneurial deviance. This study supports and advances the strain perspective for understanding the deviant behavior engaged in by SME owners in emerging economies who experience heavy economic and institutional pressures (Ahlstrom and Ding, 2014).…”

“…Third, an examination of these two variables also addresses the typical economic and institutional sources of strain pressure on SME owners in emerging economies because, in this context, the fetishism of economic success and institutional inequality is overt (Ahlstrom and Ding, 2014).…”

The role of entrepreneurship in transforming efficiency economies into innovation-based economies

“…The causes are too numerous to mention all. Institutional barriers (Hashi & Krasniqi 2011), a preference for waged employment because of the higher opportunity cost of starting one's own business (Koellinger & Thurik 2012), an unfavourable institutional framework (Ahlstrom & Ding 2014), the lack of a welfare system that supports entrepreneurs (Chowdhury et al 2015) and institutional instability (Ahlstrom & Bruton 2010) are some of the factors that appear frequently.…”

Entrepreneurship and Innovation in China and Mexico: An Analysis from the Public Policies Perspective

“…Private initiatives in China have grown despite having a rigid normative system and mechanisms of work for the legal and financial terms [14] but at the same time, in the macroeconomic environment, the State has consolidated ecosystems of entrepreneurship that have weakened the shortcomings of the new generation of entrepreneurs and an emergency of this variable in response to the aims of positioning and solidification of the domestic market, currently succeeding in solidifying institutions and taking a more successful control of the nation's entrepreneurial activities [3].…”

“…For Ahlstrom & Ding [3] entrepreneurship in China was an implausible reality in the last century, however, the objectives of economic growth and international positioning through an assimilation scheme of the globalization process, have allowed a more timely and detailed approach of the public management for this variable, evidence of this, is presented around the historical changes that were generated because of the public reforms that give greater importance to the liberation of foreign capital investment since 1978, and a gradual liberalization of the economy by means of the population efforts, that is strengthened in the early 90's, catapulting the economic sector represented by the MSME typology and the importance it has for the internal and external economy of this country.…”