Learning from successful local private firms in China: Establishing legitimacy

By D. Ahlstrom, Garry D. Bruton. 2001

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How Does Environmental Corporate Social Responsibility Matter in a Dysfunctional Institutional Environment? Evidence from China (2015, unknown): “It also helps a firm avoid government interference and obtain institutional protection (Zimmerman and Zeitz 2002; Ahlstrom and Bruton 2001; Bai et al. 2006).”
ERP implementation failures in China: Case studies with implications for ERP vendors (2005, background): “In summary, as contended by Ahlstrom and Bruton (2001), foreign companies should learn how to establish legitimacy in China’s transition economy by carefully taking characteristics of Chinese settings into account.”
Chinese entrepreneurship and small business development: an overview and research agenda (2006, background): “Based on six case studies of high-technology entrepreneurial firms, Ahlstrom and Bruton (2002) examine how culture can affect entrepreneurs as well as the roles that individual actors can play in an institutional setting with such strong and pervasive cultural influences.”
Strategic human resource management, firm performance, and employee relations climate in China (2008, background): “…enterprises (SOEs), foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs), and privately owned enterprises (POEs) face different institutional constraints (Ahlstrom & Bruton, 2001; Ding, Akhtar, & Ge, 2006) and they search for different HR models in order to operate effectively in the Chinese…”
Understanding Business Group Performance in an Emerging Economy: Acquiring Resources and Capabilities in Order to Prosper* (2005, unknown): “This embeddedness is particularly important in an emergent market where organizational legitimacy comes with age (Ahlstrom and Bruton, 2001).”
Private firms in China: Building legitimacy in an emerging economy (2008, methodology): “The result was building far greater acceptance of private enterprise, along with more availability of capital, as a necessary part of China’s development and an opening of the economy (Ahlstrom & Bruton, 2001; Sull, 2005).”
Business, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Toward Poverty Reduction (2019, background): “…firms during China’s early reforms in the 1980s and 1990s to ensure the legitimacy of those ventures and to provide encouragement and dignity to entrepreneurs trying to make their way in an increasingly competitive and open East Asian commercial environment (Ahlstrom and Bruton 2001).”
Understanding place-based entrepreneurship in rural Central Europe: A comparative institutional analysis (2014, background): “Resonating with the work of Aldrich and Fiol (1994), Ahlstrom and Bruton (2001, 2002) emphasise that entrepreneurs need to establish legitimacy within their environment, and how cultural norms influence the behaviours and the strategies used to develop the business.”
Venture capital in China: Past, present, and future (2007, background): “One of the major issues is that in an emerging economy such as China, private capital and enterprises have little history or legitimacy (Ahlstrom & Bruton, 2001; DeSoto, 2000).”
Entrepreneurship in Russia and China: The Impact of Formal Institutional Voids (2010, background): “It was only Deng Xiaoping’s 1992 visit to the “capitalist” south, and 451May, 2010 in particular to Shenzhen, that signaled a clear return to the path of market reforms (Ahlstrom & Bruton, 2001).”
Understanding venture capital in East Asia: the impact of institutions on the industry today and tomorrow (2004, background): “Whereas in the West, efficiency, profit motive, 150 and responsiveness to investors are thought to rank 151 supreme, in East Asia, building legitimacy, maintaining 152 harmony and securing connections are of key concern 153 to businesspeople (Ahlstrom & Bruton, 2001; Chen, 154 2001).”