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Comparative Entrepreneurship Initiatives

Studies in China, Japan and the USA

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  • © 2011

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Editors:
  1. Chikako Usui

    1. University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA

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Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Asian Business Series (PAMABS)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction to Comparative Entrepreneurship Initiatives

    1. Introduction to Comparative Entrepreneurship Initiatives

      • Chikako Usui
      Pages 1-11

  3. History of Entrepreneurship

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. A Historical View of Chinese Entrepreneurship

      • David Faure
      Pages 15-35

    3. Entrepreneurs and Managers in the Development of Japanese Business

      • Tsunehiko Yui, Richard A. Colignon
      Pages 36-73

    4. Entrepreneurship and Social Change in the United States: Dynamic Stages, Historical Lessons

      • David B. Sicilia
      Pages 74-103

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 301-309
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA

    Chikako Usui

About the editor

CHIKAKO USUI Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Missouri St. Louis, USA. She specializes in the areas of comparative social policy and political economy of Japan. She is co-author of Amakudari: The Hidden Fabric of Japan's Economy and Japan's Population Aging and Silver Industries in The Silver Market Phenomenon (edited by F. Kolbacher and C. Herstatt).

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