The state and entrepreneurship in China: Essays from institutional and contingency perspectives
Wei, Yifan
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Title
The state and entrepreneurship in China: Essays from institutional and contingency perspectives
Author(s)
Wei, Yifan
Issue Date
2018-12-06
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Love, E. Geoffrey
Cheng, Joseph
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Love, E. Geoffrey
Committee Member(s)
Kraatz, Matthew S.
Yao, Fiona Kun
Leblebici, Huseyin
Department of Study
Business Administration
Discipline
Business Administration
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
entrepreneurship, the state, institutional perspective
Abstract
In this dissertation, I investigate the role of the state in entrepreneurship from an institutional lens. I suggest that simply viewing the state as a positive or negative factor is limiting and less than helpful in improving our understanding of the mechanisms through which entrepreneurial activities rise or fall. My dissertation takes a contingency approach and test my claims by studying the booming entrepreneurial activities in China where the state has been widely acknowledged as a strong one. In the first study, I examine institutional level contingencies of state actions that are designed to facilitate entrepreneurship. I find more developed market and more academic institutions in a province will strengthen the effect of the provision of public and social services by the provincial government on the growth of private enterprise founding rates in the province. My second study examines individual-level contingencies of the influence of government corruption on entrepreneurial firm performance. I find corruption will have a more positive effect on the performance of entrepreneurial firms founded by entrepreneurs with a transactional mindset relative to those with a principled mindset. There is also evidence that corruption has a more positive effect on the performance of entrepreneurial firms founded by entrepreneurs with more social capital. This dissertation provides a basis upon which future research on the relationship between the state and entrepreneurship can build.
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