The thirtieth anniversary of the official launch of market reform in China coincided with a
severe global financial crisis at the end of 2008. Bracing for a dramatic slowdown in …

The number of entrepreneurs in the system of People's Political Consultative Conferences
(PPCC) has increased dramatically in the last two decades. Although the political …

The ability of China's entrepreneurs to establish firms in the midst of a strangling
bureaucratic system is a topic that demands attention, not least because it forms the basis of …

The economic literature can help us find how to foster entrepreneurship in China in order to
ensure a sustainable economic growth. Someone asked Confucius 'Why do you not take …

Using institutional and resource dependence theories as the conceptual framework, this
study identifies three forms of conformity—political, economic, and social—that can affect the …

The promotion of a market-oriented economic policy in China after 1978 set the stage for
explosive growth in the number of peasant households shifting from subsistence agriculture …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to explore the key micro factors that are shaping
Chinese entrepreneurship: socio‐political origins, motivations, educational attainment …

The Chinese local state bureaucracy has been a major promoter and organizer of economic
reforms and development in the post-Mao years. In fulfilling its economic functions, it has …

A thoroughly researched assessment of how China's economic success continues to be
shaped by the communist ideology of Chairman Mao It was long assumed that as China …