Entrepreneurship by Alliance

45 Pages Posted: 20 Feb 2003

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Barbara Krug

Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM); Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM)

Judith Mehta

The Open University - Department of Economics

Date Written: 21 2001 1,

Abstract

Recent years have seen the introduction of markets and a system of private property rights in China with a view to changing the composition of production and demand and enhancing welfare. Central to the success of these reforms is the rise of entrepreneurship with its potential to set the economy on a higher growth path by supplying the products which consumers need and want, creating new employment opportunities, and introducing new and more efficient technologies of production. But to what extent can we expect to see entrepreneurs in China behaving like their counterparts in the advanced industrial economies of Western Europe, Japan, and the United States? This is the question we address in this chapter. In our view, the reform programme has, indeed, opened up new opportunities for private enterprise activity; but idiosyncrasies of the business environment are at the same time generating novel institutional arrangements in support of entrepreneurs' investments. We agree, therefore, with Herrick and Kindleberger when they assert that "Development ought not to be viewed as a monotonic, stylized path, ever onward and upward, historically established and invariably repeated" (1983, p.62).

Keywords: economic development, economic growth, entrepreneurship, business networking, Western economies

JEL Classification: M, M10, L2, P21

Suggested Citation

Krug, Barbara and Mehta, Judith, Entrepreneurship by Alliance (21 2001 1,). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=370946

Barbara Krug (Contact Author)

Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) ( email )

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Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM) ( email )

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Judith Mehta

The Open University - Department of Economics ( email )

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