This commentary reflects on varieties of urban entrepreneurialism and rethinks its
application to China. I argue that the state is proactively using market instruments for more …

Following the notion of the entrepreneurial city, this paper examines recent scholarship
about China's urban governance. Despite prevailing marketisation, the role of the state is …

This article defines the key parameters of 'state entrepreneurialism'as a governance form
that combines planning centrality and market instruments, and interprets how these two …

This research details the mundane practices of policy mobility and entrepreneurial
endeavour in Jiyuan in relation to the city's changing administrative position, and is one of …

We revisit the concept of urban entrepreneurialism to highlight some of its variety. In
particular, the present article refocuses discussion on: processes of innovation, bringing …

The entrepreneurial city is no longer (only) a growth machine: recession and austerity, new
forms of financialization, and diverse experiments in urban policy have diluted local elites' …

As market reform has progressed in China, state bureaux have adapted and become
entrepreneurial. This contradicts expectations that states will either simply retreat in the face …

To what extent is it possible to capture the experience of an entrepreneurial endeavour in
the post-socialist transition within the thesis of the'entrepreneurial city'? This paper applies …

The portrayals of “new state capitalism” in both the popular media and policy-making circles
have become a potent geopolitical category. This politically realist categorization is …

Jane Duckett describes in detail new state business activities in China and explains why
they have appeared. Using research on the northern city of Tianjin during the 1990s, she …