Chinese Management Studies: Volume 9 Issue 2

Entrepreneurship research amid transitional economies: domains and opportunities

Song Lin, Philippe Lasserre

This special issue of Chinese Management Studies aims to focus on entrepreneurship in China by addressing a variety of topics. The purpose is to provide some insights for…

The effects of entrepreneurs’ socioeconomic status and political characteristics on new ventures’ establishment of formal political ties in China

Yiyuan Mai, Chan Xiong, Xiaobin He

This study aims to examine, by drawing upon resource dependence theory and upper echelon theory, how entrepreneurs’ socioeconomic statuses and political characteristics influence…

Effects of shared vision and integrations on entrepreneurial performance: Empirical analyses of 246 new Chinese ventures

Chen Chi-hsiang

This paper aims to examine the possible benefits and effects of shared vision and integration on entrepreneurial management for new Chinese ventures. By examining new enterprises…

Cultural beliefs, agency relationship, and network governance: Study on the Teochew remittance network

Shao-Dong Hu, Si-Yan Chen

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of cultural beliefs on governance in a business network without a legal institutional framework. Particular emphasis is…

The effect of entrepreneurial context on the performance of new ventures

Song Lin, Edward G. Rogoff, Check-Teck Foo, Xiaoyuan Liu

This empirical study aims to test the impact of four types of entrepreneurial context on the growth and success rates of new ventures in China and related the findings to the…

Growth mechanism for cluster entrepreneurship of peasant households: Three cases in the Chinese forest zone

Yongji Xue, Xinyu Liu

The purposes of this paper are to explore how the cluster entrepreneurship of peasant households in the Chinese forest zone develops, and to analyze how the influence of kinship…

Unraveling legitimation strategies of Chinese Internet start-ups

Xiaohua Su, Haidong Peng, Shujun Zhang, Yun Rong

– The purpose of this paper is to explore the legitimacy needs and legitimation strategies of Internet start-ups in the context of industry dynamism.

Integrating Fan Li and Napoléon: Chinese and French

Check Teck Foo