The First Shall Be Last? Entrepreneurship and Communist Cadres in the Transition from Socialism

Róna‐Tas, Ákos

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“…7 Another geographic region that has attracted significant research attention is Central and Eastern Europe. See Puffer and McCarthy (2003), Rona-Tas (1994), Sedaitis (1998), Spicer et al (2000), Stark (1996), and Uhlenbruck and De Castro (2000) for some examples. This literature has been comprehensively reviewed elsewhere by Meyer and Peng (2005).…”

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An institution-based view of international business strategy: a focus on emerging economies

2008

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Leveraging the recent research interest in emerging economies, this Perspective paper argues that an institution-based view of international business (IB) strategy has emerged. It is positioned as one leg that helps sustain the ''strategy tripod'' (the other two legs consisting of the industry-and resource-based views). We then review four diverse areas of substantive research: (1) antidumping as entry barriers; (2) competing in and out of India; (3) growing the firm in China; and (4) governing the corporation in emerging economies. Overall, we argue that an institution-based view of IB strategy, in combination with industry-and resource-based views, will not only help sustain a strategy tripod, but also shed significant light on the most fundamental questions confronting IB, such as ''What drives firm strategy and performance in IB?''

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An institution-based view of international business strategy: a focus on emerging economies

2008

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“…In the years after the regime change, two main political-economic blocks were crystallized from earlier elites and intellectuals (Róna-Tas 1994, Szalai 1995, Böröcz and Róna-Tas 1995, Szelényi and Szelényi 1996, Kolosi and Sági 1996, Vedres and Stark 2012. The first block was based politically on a coalition of late socialist technocrats, connected to the reformed Socialist Party, and liberal intellectuals and technocrats, connected to the Liberal Party.…”

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“Coloniality of power” in East Central Europe: external penetration as internal force in post-socialist Hungarian politics

Gagyi

2016

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“…Government intervention is the key factor leveraging the constraints of business resources, creating entrepreneurial opportunities, and facilitating the transformational mechanism of China economic system, from a centralized or planned to a decentralized or liberalized (Zhao, 2014). The combination of political decentralization and market liberalization determines the elasticity of resource-constraint (Guthrie, 1999;Rona-Tas, 1994).…”

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Chintrepreneurship – The China-way of Entrepreneurship Government Intervention, Seedling Approach – A Network-based Model of Entrepreneurship

Zhao¹,

Zhang²

2017

MOS

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The development of entrepreneurship in China is coined in this paper as the 'Chintrepreneurship', namely, the China-way of entrepreneurship, which is defined synthetically as an integral result of ideological transformation, industrial institutionalization and privatization, and technological transition from imitation and innovation. From an evolutionary perspective, China-way of entrepreneurship is resulted from the three-staged economic reformation. From a dialectic perspective, government intervention is not only a driver but also an obstacle to the formation of China-way of entrepreneurship, which is outlined as a compounded effect of dual-track policy, financial policy, FDI policy, science, technology, and innovation policy, education and human capital policy. As an exploratory study and relying on an in-depth and extensive literature review, on-site observations and thousands of interviews, this paper endeavors to establish a theoretical framework, to contour the taxonomy and the four constraints, and to distinguish the formational mechanism of China-way of entrepreneurship from the previously defined ones. Theoretically, this paper proposes a need for a paradigm shift from polarized (Washington Consensus) to de-polarized (Beijing Consensus), and argues that, the network-based framework (aka: the neo-classical economics) fits to rationalize the peculiarity and mechanism of China-way of entrepreneurship, uniquely incubated from the politically autocratic, bureaucratic and cronyism oriented social and institutional systems. This paper concludes that entrepreneurship does exist in China, and that, government intervention and seedling approach serve as strategic and exogenous forces, while imitation and low marginal price act as tactical and endogenous factors -together, they constitute the developmental mechanism of CHINTREPRENEURSHIP, in parallel with economic transition, from traditionally the global production networks (GPNs) to presently the global production and trade networks (GPTNs), from manufacturing-based to service and consumption oriented. From the perspective of Darwin's 'survival of the fittest', criticism is definitely needed, in order to legitimize the theory of CHINTREPRENEURSHIP.

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The First Shall Be Last? Entrepreneurship and Communist Cadres in the Transition from Socialism

Cited by 357 publications

References 18 publications

An institution-based view of international business strategy: a focus on emerging economies

An institution-based view of international business strategy: a focus on emerging economies

“Coloniality of power” in East Central Europe: external penetration as internal force in post-socialist Hungarian politics

Chintrepreneurship – The China-way of Entrepreneurship Government Intervention, Seedling Approach – A Network-based Model of Entrepreneurship

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