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An Argument on the Existing Framework of Entrepreneurship - Shanzhai: An Emerging Entrepreneurial Model

Management and Administrative Sciences Review

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Title An Argument on the Existing Framework of Entrepreneurship - Shanzhai: An Emerging Entrepreneurial Model
 
Creator Zhao, Jiangning
 
Subject Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Capability, Entrepreneurial Commitment, Erosion of Inertia, Erosion of Imitation, Shanzhai Entrepreneurial Mode
 
Description This paper scrutinizes, comprehensively and extensively, the theoretical and empirical evidences, factors and characteristics adopted in the existing literature on the construct of entrepreneurship framework; examines horizontally and vertically the implications and indications derived from previous researches, and interprets logically the mechanisms and patterns of evolutionary path of entrepreneurship framework; proposes and discusses analytically, a revised definition of entrepreneurship, which stipulates that entrepreneurship is an opportunity-and-capability oriented management system supported by three principles necessary for the sustainability of entrepreneurship. This paper establishes and delineates systematically, a trilogy framework to anatomize and demonstrate the five fatal factors that help explain the common causes of why so many entrepreneurial failures (linear thinking, discontinued entrepreneurial commitment, inability of effective knowledge management, internal erosion of inertia, and external erosion of imitation activities). Additionally, this paper highlights the dynamic and contextual relationship between entrepreneurship and business environment; emphasizes the role of government in promoting and incubating the development of entrepreneurship; maps out the trajectory path from imitation to innovation; rationalizes the inevitability of imitation as an entrepreneurial approach, especially when a firm’s technological capability and resources are limited; hence, theorizes an indisputable argument that Shanzhai is an emerging entrepreneurial model, or, a Chinese way of entrepreneurial model featured by the evolutionary path from imitation to innovation, and that the framework of Shanzhai model may serve to bridge the divides between the West-Dominated-Management-Framework and the newly emerged East-Way-of-Doing-Business. Lastly, this paper presents three case studies, confirming and emphasizing the decisive role of entrepreneurial capabilities in identifying, capturing and transforming opportunities into business operations and values. Recommendations and suggestions for future research are accordingly provided.
 
Publisher Academy of Business & Scientific Research
 
Date 2014-07-02
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://absronline.org/journals/index.php/masr/article/view/239
 
Source Management and Administrative Sciences Review; Vol 3 No 5 (2014): July; 762-808
2308-1368
2310-872X
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://absronline.org/journals/index.php/masr/article/view/239/260
 
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