Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. De Gruyter Handbooks in Business, Economics and Finance V
3. Preface VII
4. Contents IX
5. List of contributors XIII
6. 1 State capitalism, entrepreneurship, and the private sector in China 1
7. 2 The development of Chinese entrepreneurship: a regional perspective 33
8. 3 Institutional weakness, network strategies, and entrepreneurial performance: evidence from China’s market transition 47
9. 4 New venture performance of start-ups among Chinese university graduates: knowledge strategy and social capital 73
10. 5 Chinese university students’ online start-up motivation on live streaming platforms 97
11. 6 Migrant Entrepreneurship in China 117
12. 7 Returning rural entrepreneurship 141
13. 8 Innovation-driven entrepreneurship in large firms 177
14. 9 Entrepreneurship in China’s state-owned enterprises 191
15. 10 From market arbitrage to product innovation: a theoretical analysis of the phenomenon of “Fool’s Melon Seeds” and Nian Guang-jiu 215
16. 11 AI startup unicorns in China 239
17. 12 FinTech entrepreneurship in China 271
18. 13 Coordinating the bureaucracy to foster entrepreneurship in the AI industry: an exploratory case study of Suzhou city in China 323
19. 14 China’s entrepreneurship and technological catching-up 357
20. 15 Mass entrepreneurship and innovation in China: an analysis of breadth and depth of China’s high-tech small enterprises 377
21. 16 China’s entrepreneurship policy 399
22. 17 Chinese entrepreneurial ecosystem in the digital economy 435
23. 18 China’s incubation industry: performance and future developments 453
24. 19 Entrepreneurship education in China: the current status and characteristics 475
25. 20 Entrepreneurship and regional imbalance in China 505
26. 21 Sustainable entrepreneurship in China 523
27. 22 Entrepreneurship and Covid-19: challenges and opportunities 545
28. 23 The effect of peer-to-peer lending on financial exclusion: evidence from China 577
29. Index 609