China's Rational Entrepreneurs: The development of the new private sector (Routledgecurzon Studies on China in Transition)

Preliminaries......Page 1
CONTENTS......Page 6
1 Introduction new opportunities new sector new firms......Page 12
2 Rationality as a variable in comparative management theory and the possibility of a Chinese version......Page 32
3 Entrepreneurship by alliance......Page 61
4 Emerging markets entrepreneurship and uncertainty the emergence of a private sector in China......Page 83
5 The role of social capital networks and property rights in China’s privatization process......Page 108
6 The evolving institutional environment and China’s state entrepreneurship......Page 130
7 Localism and entrepreneurship history identity and solidarity as factors of production......Page 150
8 Social capital in China the meaning of guanxi in Chinese business......Page 177
9 The sometimes rational approach to empirical research in China a personal account......Page 200
Index......Page 216