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Fall 2000

ISSN 0890-913X

Volume 16, Number 1

Categories: Fall 2000 | Entrepreneurship

The Life-cycle Growth and Development Approach to Analyzing Entrepreneurship in China

Alina Zapalska, Marshall University

Geoff Perry, Auckland University of Technology

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TheLife-cycleGrowthandDevelopmentApproachtoAnalyzingEntrepreneurshipinChinaAlinaZapalskaMarshallUniversityGeoffPerryAucklandUniversityofTechnologyIthasbeenlongrecognisedthatacriticalcontributortoeconomicgrowthanddevelopmentinacountryisprivatesectorentrepreneurialactivity(Schumpeter1934,McLelland1961,Kilby1971andKirchhoff1991).Consequently,therehasbeenalargeandgrowingbodyofresearchintothenatureandcharacteristicsofentrepreneursandintothesocial,economicandpoliticalenvironmentsthatpromoteorhinderentrepreneurialactivity.1ThispapercontributestothisliteraturebyanalysingsmallandmediumsizedentrepreneursinChina.Specificallythepaperaddressesthreequestions:firstly,whatarethecharacteristicsofChineseentrepreneurs;secondly,whataretheproblemsfacedbyChineseentrepreneursastheirbusinessventuresdevelopandgrow;andthirdly,whatcompetenciesareimportantfortheseentrepreneurstoremainsuccessfulastheirbusinessesgrow?LiteraturereviewTheanalysisofthedevelopmentandgrowthofChineseentrepreneursinthispaperisbasedontwoaspectsofentrepreneurialresearchCstagesofdevelopmentmodelsandtheoriesoffirmcompetenceCthatareoutlinedbelow.1SeeHornadayandAbound(1971),Gartner(1989a,1989b),GnyawaliandFogel(1994)andZapalska(1997)

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Title	The Life-cycle Growth and Development Approach to Analyzing Entrepreneurship in China
Authors/Creators:	Alina Zapalska, Marshall University Geoff Perry, Auckland University of Technology
Year:	2000
Volume:	16
Number:	1
Pages:	7 - 25
Publisher:	The Association of Private Enterprise Education
ISSN:	0890-913X
Document Type:	Articles
Keywords:	Economic development, Theory of the firm, Competition, Private ownership, Public sector, Private sector, Business

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Zapalska, Alina; Perry, Geoff / 2000. "The Life-cycle Growth and Development Approach to Analyzing Entrepreneurship in China." The Journal of Private Enterprise, 16(1): 7-25.