Facing Constraints to Growth? Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs and Traditional Business Practices in East Asia

By D. Ahlstrom, M. N. Young, Eunice S. Chan, Garry D. Bruton. 2004

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Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Economic and political institutions and entry into formal and informal entrepreneurship (2014, unknown): “While informal entrepreneurs can be innovative (Daniels, 2010; ILO, 1992), they seem much less likely to innovate systematically or upgrade their technological capabilities to pursue innovation-driven growth (Ahlstrom et al., 2004; OECD & Eurostat, 2005).”
Venturing from emerging economies (2013, unknown): “In the context of internationalization, the literature suggests that firms go abroad to exploit tangible resources that are important sources of advantage for established firms but ones new ventures generally lack (Ahlstrom et al., 2004; Brouthers, O’Donnell, and Hadjimarcou, 2005; Meyer et al., 200”
Entrepreneurship in China: An overview (2014, background): “Although the Chinese diaspora had a history of entrepreneurship around the Pacific rim, generally speaking, the same was not true in mainland China (Ahlstrom et al., 2004; Pan, 1990).”
The three faces of China: Strategic alliance partner selection in three ethnic Chinese economies (2014, background): “Further, as noted earlier, likely influenced by traditional paternalistic cultural values, Chinese managers often seek to centralize control and minimize delegation (Ahlstrom et al., 2004; Cheng, Chou, Farh, Huang, & Wu, 2004).”
Corporate Governance in Emerging Economies: A Review of the Principal-Principal Perspective (2008, background): “This difficulty is exacerbated in emerging economies where difficult-to-enforce contracts make it risky for founders to turn the reins over to outsiders (Ahlstrom et al., 2004; Fukuyama, 1995).”
Venture capital in China: Past, present, and future (2007, background): “These relationships represent social controls and such controls have typically proven far more effective than economic or legal controls in countries with underdeveloped institutional structures such as in China (Guthrie, 2002; Peng, 2000; Ahlstrom et al., 2004).”
Institutions Behind Family Ownership and Control in Large Firms (2010, background): “In the 1990s, families were present in one-third of the Standard and Poor’s 500 firms and accounted for 18 per cent of equity (Anderson and Reeb, 2003).”