Title: Examining conditions for successful entrepreneurship in China's firms

Authors: M. John Foster; Lorraine Watkins-Mathys

Addresses: Kingston Business School, Kingston University, Kingston Upon Thames, KT2 7LB, UK ' Faculty of Design, Media and Management, Bucks New University, High Wycombe, HP11 4JZ, UK

Abstract: We examine the question of what factors might be likely to increase the probability of success for entrepreneurial activity by FIEs and domestic firms in China. We first examine the possibility of there being a distinct and separate notion of Chinese entrepreneurship but find that unlikely. The issue then becomes what contextual factors may be necessary to enable entrepreneurial activity in China to flourish and we locate four such factors. We acknowledge that our posited set of necessary factors is probably not a sufficient set but they are at the minimum a useful starting point.

Keywords: entrepreneurship; China; FDI; domestic investments; higher added value; context.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEIM.2020.108249

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, 2020 Vol.24 No.4/5, pp.339 - 357

Accepted: 16 Dec 2018
Published online: 07 Jul 2020 *

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