A comparative study of entrepreneurship of private sector in eastern and western regions of China based on social networks
The driving force behind the Chinas spectacular economic gains has been the re-emergence of a dynamic private sector in the form of Small & Medium Business,meanwhile there is a great gap of private economy between eastern and western regions of China. In this paper,we focus on if and how entrepreneurship of private sector influenced by social networks variables. Our econometric study is based on data for 400 persons from a recent representative survey of the population in these two China regions. We use the probit model that takes care of the regional stratification of the data,and the results of the nonlinear models are carefully interpreted and illustrated. We show that the differences of social networks in these two regions matters for the decision to start new private enterprises,i. e. These findings are helpful for regional policies to encourage new private enterprises firm entry.
entrepreneurship self-employment social networks eastern and western regions of China
HE Mao DUAN Wanchun
School of Management & Economics Kunming University of Science and Technology,Kunming,650093,P. R. China
国际会议
The First International Conference on Management Innovation(ICMI 2007)(管理创新会议)
上海
英文
735-740
2007-06-04（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）