Abstract The growth of
Entrepreneurship in China has been phenomenal since the open-door poliin 1978.
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Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have increasingly played an importarole in the Chinese economy, accounting for about 50 percent of the total GDP in 200Nonetheless, a few studies have examined what counts for such rapid growth entrepreneurship in China. This study focuses on identifying environmental factors relatto the success and failure of entrepreneurship in China. Based on a survey of 117 SMexecutives in Sichuan province, the survey results show that positive social acceptancrisk-taking attitudes and infrastructure adequacy were perceived as most facilitating factowhile market development and exploitation, and adopting low cost
strategy were succefactors. The results also reveal that lack of capital and over-competition within the industwas the key reasons for SME failures.
Key words: entrepreneurship environmental factors
I. Introduction
Entrepreneurship study still remains at the theory-building stage (Wiseman and Skilton,1999). A recent review of fifteen years (1985-1999) of publication in the leading managementjournals resulted only 1.8 percent of articles in entrepreneurship (Busenitz et al., 2003),indicating the lack of entrepreneurship studies. This study attempts to add the growingliterature in this knowledge domain by presenting some preliminary findings ofentrepreneurship growth in China. Following the assertions of Shane and Venkataraman(2000) that entrepreneurship can not be explained solely by traits of individuals and thatthe entrepreneurial behavior of individuals reflect their responses to the situational cues ofopportunities, we focus our discussion on the environmental factors for the growth ofentrepreneurship in China. We focus on these factors because “entrepreneurship seeks tounderstand how opportunities that manifest future goods and services are discovered,created and exploited” (Venkataraman, 1997), and the opportunities released by theenvironmental changes present information about availability and value of resources.Environmental factors make up the context within which the entrepreneurial process stylizedas autonomy, innovativeness, risk taking, proactiveness, and competitive aggressivenesstakes place (Lumpkin and Dess, 1996).
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