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This chapter explores the role that Confucian culture plays in the expansion of ICT industries in East Asia, particularly Taiwan and China. For over 100 years economists and sociologists have studied and debated the positive and negative influences that Confucian culture exerts on economic development and entrepreneurship. The burst of East Asian economic growth in the late twentieth century furnished a larger body of knowledge to study Confucian entrepreneurship. This chapter aims to show how two unrelated phenomena, the growth of female entrepreneurship and the unrelated issue of intellectual piracy in separate ways throw light on Confucian culture as a stimulant to entrepreneurship. This chapter concludes that the secret to Confucian dynamism lies in how Confucian philosophy educates individuals to respond to low social status and countries to loss of political status.
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Allen, L. (2017). Confucianism and Entrepreneurship in ASEAN Context. In: Mandal, P., Vong, J. (eds) Entrepreneurship in Technology for ASEAN. Managing the Asian Century. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2281-4_12
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