Kinship Networks and Entrepreneurs in China’s Transitional Economy1

By Yusheng Peng. American Journal of Sociology, 2004

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Does the Colour of the Cat Matter? The Red Hat Strategy in China's Private Enterprises (2007, background): “Peng (2004) indicated that trust and solidarity embedded in kinship networks was an informal institution that shielded private entrepreneurs from predatory officials and economized transaction costs.”
Collectivism, individualism, and outgroup cooperation in a segmented China (2007, background): “Last, although small firms formed around small village kinship networks may be likely to reflect the values of a collectivist ingroup (Peng, 2004), even in this situation there are limitations on how big a family firm can become before a unified ingroup devolves into competing cliques (Reading, 1990”
A Cross-Disciplinary Exploration of Entrepreneurship Research (2007, background): “Specifically, we identified the following themes: (a) entrepreneurship within ethnic minorities (Aldrich & Waldinger, 1990; Evans, 1989; Portes, Guarnizo, & Haller, 2002), (b) organizational networks and entrepreneurship (Davis & Greve, 1997; Peng, 2004; Podolny, 2001), (c) innovation diffusion (Cha”
Guanxi vs networking: Distinctive configurations of affect- and cognition-based trust in the networks of Chinese vs American managers (2009, background): “Chinese managers may actually have more kin in their professional networks (Chow & Ng, 2004; Ng & Chow, 2005; Peng, 2004), and thus the family-like patterns in our results may be driven by patterns of interaction with actual family members.”
Building Trust in Economic Space (2006, background): “Effective institutions, manifest as governance structures that reduce the transaction costs associated with economic relationships, help create an environment of trust by protecting property rights and preventing cheating, opportunism, or defection (North, 1990; 1996; Ensminger, 1997; 2001; Dasgupta”
When does FDI matter? The roles of local institutions and ethnic origins of FDI (2013, background): “Formal legal institutions influencing entrepreneurship have gone through ‘‘strict prohibition, tolerance, accommodation and encouragement’’ (Peng, 2004).”
What Drives New Ventures to Internationalize from Emerging to Developed Economies? (2007, background): “Not only the internalized value associated with age of entrepreneurs but also their social capital developing from kinship, education, working background, and experience with DE can play a role informing what the right thing is to do (Peng, 2004).”
Early international entrepreneurship in China: Extent and determinants (2010, background): “Peng (2004), for instance, provides empirical evidence from 366 Chinese villages to illustrate that kinship networks act as informal institutional protection for property rights of private entrepreneurs, which in turn would have assisted these firms in credibly committing to exporting.”
Where can capabilities come from? network ties and capability acquisition in business groups (2011, background): “The higher level of trust between interlocked directors (Peng, 2004) and the pursuit of common goals, such as maximizing the interests of the founding family and the profitability of the group as a whole (Chang and Hong, 2000), enable group affiliates connected by director ties to avail themselves…”
The Prevalence and the Increasing Significance of Guanxi (2018, unknown): “22 Peng 2004.”
The Adolescence of Family Firm Research (2012, background): “According to this view, kinship networks are integral in clan systems of organization, which arise in the context of weak central states (Boisot & Child, 1996) or where they are needed to provide protection against predatory government officials (Peng, 2004).”
Contingent Political Capital and International Alliances: Evidence from South Korea (2007, background): “Korea’s multitiered system of obligation and commitment, analyzed by Chang (1991) in historical breadth, is similar to the Chinese business environment (Peng, 2004).”
Social Capital and Entrepreneurship (2005, unknown): “Reinforced by cultural norms, business owners can rely on their kinship networks for assistance, as noted in a study of how the property rights of private entrepreneurs were enforced in China [66].”