Comparative Entrepreneurship Initiatives: Studies in China, Japan and the USA (Palgrave Macmillan Asian Business Series)

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. Comparative Entrepreneurial Initiatives offers a unique investigation in to the three largest economies of the world: China, Japan and the USA. Written by leading scholars with intimate knowledge of each country, it brings together historical, institutional, cultural, and case study approaches and shows how the institutional context plays a key role in facilitating entrepreneurship. The contributors draw out the intersection of individual and group experiences with the historical and institutional context of the three countries and show a wide variation in entrepreneurial patterns that result from cultural, legal, and political factors. Case studies integrate the individual-level details of entrepreneurs within societal context and address issues that typically arise in new ventures. This book provides a better understanding of the national forces that promote and constrain entrepreneurship. It is timely in its analysis of the role of entrepreneurial initiatives in the transformation of global competition in the 21st century Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction to Comparative Entrepreneurship Initiatives....Pages 1-11 Front Matter....Pages 13-13 A Historical View of Chinese Entrepreneurship....Pages 15-35 Entrepreneurs and Managers in the Development of Japanese Business....Pages 36-73 Entrepreneurship and Social Change in the United States: Dynamic Stages, Historical Lessons....Pages 74-103 Front Matter....Pages 105-105 Dancing with Change: An Co-evolutionary Perspective for Private Entrepreneurship during China’s Institutional Transitions....Pages 107-137 Academic Spin-offs in Japan: Institutional Revolution and Early Outcomes....Pages 138-163 The Social Context for High-Potential Entrepreneurship in the United States: An Historical-Institutional Perspective....Pages 164-187 Front Matter....Pages 189-189 Does Stage Matter in Chinese New Ventures? The Roles of Learning, Network, and Corporate Entrepreneurship in Building Cultural Competitiveness....Pages 191-221 The Stigma of Failure and Limited Opportunities for Ex-failed Entrepreneurs’ Redemption in Japan....Pages 222-244 Front Matter....Pages 245-245 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)....Pages 247-275 Koots Green Tea....Pages 276-299 Back Matter....Pages 301-309