TY - JOUR
T1 - Entrepreneurial Typology
T2 - The Case of Owner-managers in China
AU - Siu, Wai Sum
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 1995/10
Y1 - 1995/10
N2 - WAI-SUM SIU IS A LECTURER IN THE department of marketing at Hong Kong Baptist College, Kowloon, Kong Kong. Research studies into entrepreneurial typology have proliferated but fundamental problems still exist. This paper reviews problems encountered in entrepreneurial categorisation and suggests a research strategy to overcome those barriers. Owner managers in China are selected as an illustration for the usefulness of this proposed research strategy. Based on in-depth interviews with 30 private entrepreneurs in China, a typology of Chinese entrepreneurs is identified. They are ‘senior citizen’, ‘workaholic’, ‘swinger’, ‘idealistic’, and ‘high flyer’. The evidence of this paper reveals that a combination of qualitative data processing skills and quantitative datas analytical methods is a viable route of identifying entrepreneurial typology and is useful in entrepreneurial research.
AB - WAI-SUM SIU IS A LECTURER IN THE department of marketing at Hong Kong Baptist College, Kowloon, Kong Kong. Research studies into entrepreneurial typology have proliferated but fundamental problems still exist. This paper reviews problems encountered in entrepreneurial categorisation and suggests a research strategy to overcome those barriers. Owner managers in China are selected as an illustration for the usefulness of this proposed research strategy. Based on in-depth interviews with 30 private entrepreneurs in China, a typology of Chinese entrepreneurs is identified. They are ‘senior citizen’, ‘workaholic’, ‘swinger’, ‘idealistic’, and ‘high flyer’. The evidence of this paper reveals that a combination of qualitative data processing skills and quantitative datas analytical methods is a viable route of identifying entrepreneurial typology and is useful in entrepreneurial research.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0011650417&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0266242695141003
DO - 10.1177/0266242695141003
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:0011650417
SN - 0266-2426
VL - 14
SP - 53
EP - 64
JO - International Small Business Journal
JF - International Small Business Journal
IS - 1
ER -