New Chinese entrepreneurs: perspectives of Confucian attributes and social settings
Zheng,S, Wang,BX and Hu,MC 2015, New Chinese entrepreneurs: perspectives of Confucian attributes and social settings. In Ordóñez de Pablos,P (ed), Technological solutions for sustainable business practice in Asia, IGI Global, Hershey, Pa., pp.19-35, doi: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8462-1.ch002.
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New Chinese entrepreneurs: perspectives of Confucian attributes and social settings
This chapter uses a qualitative approach to explore the characteristics of newly-bred Chinese entrepreneurs among 14 technology-based companies in Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Internal and external perspectives on studying entrepreneurship were adapted to examine personality attributes and the impacts of social settings on shaping the characteristics of modern Chinese entrepreneurs. The findings show that Chinese entrepreneurs were strongly influenced by the Confucianism, in which learning was upheld as a key to develop internal innovative capabilities for sustaining enterprise growth in the dynamic environment. Chinese entrepreneurs leading technologically innovative companies were also found to be visionary, but with less risk taking; they had exceptional networking capability and political dexterity to build strong relationships with government, industry and community. The tie between the Confucian entrepreneurial attributes and strong government support appears to enable the 'innovation in Chinese way'. Implications of these results are discussed.
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