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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791956603321

Titolo

Comparative Entrepreneurship Initiatives [[electronic resource] ] : Studies in China, Japan and the USA / / edited by C. Usui

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2011

ISBN

1-280-68098-9

9786613657923

0-230-31436-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2011.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (323 p.)

Collana

Palgrave Macmillan Asian Business Series, , 2661-8435

Disciplina

338.04

658.02

658.022

Soggetti

International business enterprises

Small business

Leadership

Entrepreneurship

Management

Industrial management

Development economics

International Business

Small Business

Business Strategy/Leadership

Innovation/Technology Management

Development Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 facilitate and constrain entrepreneurship.