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TY - GEN
T1 - Testing the power of social capital in business start-up finance: a survey analysis on China's private enterprises.
AU - Huang, Qihai
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - This paper tests the role of social capital in financing business start-ups in China’s private sector. It firstly examines the literature and proposes hypotheses. Then, based on a clearly defined cadre concept, it analyses the unpublished 1995 national survey on private enterprises in China, focusing on social capital of private entrepreneurs, their business start-up financing, and the association between start-up financing and their social capital. A surprising finding is that being a cadre or having close cadre connections does not confer better access to public sources for financing business start-up as the available literature claims. The reasons are then discussed. It is argued that being a cadre and having close connections with cadres are only two of the channels producing social capital. The widespread practice of guanxi may have contributed to the finding in the other ways.
AB - This paper tests the role of social capital in financing business start-ups in China’s private sector. It firstly examines the literature and proposes hypotheses. Then, based on a clearly defined cadre concept, it analyses the unpublished 1995 national survey on private enterprises in China, focusing on social capital of private entrepreneurs, their business start-up financing, and the association between start-up financing and their social capital. A surprising finding is that being a cadre or having close cadre connections does not confer better access to public sources for financing business start-up as the available literature claims. The reasons are then discussed. It is argued that being a cadre and having close connections with cadres are only two of the channels producing social capital. The widespread practice of guanxi may have contributed to the finding in the other ways.
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SP - 188
BT - Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Academy of International Business
A2 - Shenkar, Oded
A2 - Kiyak, Tunga
PB - Academy of International Business
T2 - Academy of International Business Annual Conference
Y2 - 25 June 2007 through 30 June 2007
ER -