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Entrepreneurship in Asia: Entrepreneurship knowledge when East meets West

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  • Jie Wu

    (University of Aberdeen)

  • Steven Si

    (Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
    Zhejiang University)

  • Zhiyang Liu

    (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)

Abstract

Asia differs from other regions of the world with respect to its unique and longstanding cultural, social, economic, and technological attributes, all of which have eluded systematic exploration by entrepreneurship scholars, representing a unique entrepreneurial context. However, such uniqueness should not be restricted to assertions about (among other things) institutional voids, increased difficulty financing new ventures, underdeveloped technology transfer, or undertrained entrepreneurs. This special issue takes up this thread and explores several key attributes—culture, social structure, economic policy, and technology—that represent parts of the broader domains that provide insights for future theory development. Philosophically, it is a perfect Being with its otherness, floated in either East or West, soaked up into itself, that is essential for us to clinch and to get some light on truth.

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  • Jie Wu & Steven Si & Zhiyang Liu, 2022. "Entrepreneurship in Asia: Entrepreneurship knowledge when East meets West," Asian Business & Management, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 21(3), pages 317-342, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:abaman:v:21:y:2022:i:3:d:10.1057_s41291-022-00187-1
    DOI: 10.1057/s41291-022-00187-1
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