Comparative Entrepreneurship Initiatives : Studies in China, Japan and the USA.

This book investigates entrepreneurial initiatives in the three largest economies of the world: China, Japan and the USA. It brings together historical, institutional, and ethnographic approaches and highlights entrepreneurial patterns that result from cultural, legal, and political forces that faci...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Usui, Associate Professor Chikako
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Series:Palgrave Macmillan Asian business series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half title; Title page; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgement; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction to Comparative Entrepreneurship Initiatives; Section I History of Entrepreneurship; 2 A Historical View of Chinese Entrepreneurship; 3 Entrepreneurs and Managers in the Development of Japanese Business; 4 Entrepreneurship and Social Change in the United States: Dynamic Stages, Historical Lessons; Section II Institutional Environment of Entrepreneurship.
  • 5 Dancing with Change: An Co-evolutionary Perspective for Private Entrepreneurship during China's Institutional Transitions6 Academic Spin-offs in Japan: Institutional Revolution and Early Outcomes; 7 The Social Context for High-Potential Entrepreneurship in the United States: An Historical-Institutional Perspective; Section III Culture and Entrepreneurship; 8 Does Stage Matter in Chinese New Ventures? The Roles of Learning, Network, and Corporate Entrepreneurship in Building Cultural Competitiveness.
  • 9 The Stigma of Failure and Limited Opportunities for Ex-failed Entrepreneurs' Redemption in JapanSection IV Case Studies of Entrepreneurship; 10 Success Factors in Applying Co-creation of the Voice of the Customer as a Strategy of Social Innovation by Japanese Services Entrepreneurs: The Case of Takayuki Nakagawa (Take & Give Needs and Urban Funes); 11 Koots Green Tea; Index.