A Study of the Ethical Issues of Private Entrepreneurs Participating in Politics in China

Tian, Zhilong; Gao, Haitao; Cone, Malcolm H.

doi:10.1007/s10551-007-9460-y

Cited by 23 publications

(14 citation statements)

References 23 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Therefore, an entrepreneur seeking support for his/her creative ideas can exploit guanxi to rally resource providers without the need to expend large amounts of energy building personal networks. The literature on guanxi in the entrepreneurial context (e.g., Fu et al., 2006; Li et al., 2008; Tian, Gao, & Cone, 2008) is particularly rich, given that guanxi in other contexts has been well‐studied.…”

Section: The Three Contexts Of Entrepreneurshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Research in China is already rich in the area of social networks ( guanxi and other forms of networking), and therefore, meaningful contributions in this line of inquiry may be limited. However, there has now emerged some research on the social responsibility and ethics of Chinese entrepreneurs (Tian et al., 2008; Zu & Song, 2009). Social responsibility is an ethical perspective that views a business as embedded in the social system and therefore the firm must contemplate its non‐economic role in the welfare of the communities in which it operates (Tian et al., 2008).…”

Section: Suggestions For Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, there has now emerged some research on the social responsibility and ethics of Chinese entrepreneurs (Tian et al., 2008; Zu & Song, 2009). Social responsibility is an ethical perspective that views a business as embedded in the social system and therefore the firm must contemplate its non‐economic role in the welfare of the communities in which it operates (Tian et al., 2008). Normative conceptions of social responsibility argue that when businesses take a proactive stance to act socially responsible, they pre‐empt the role of government as a monitor and hence assure themselves the freedom to operate (Carpenter, Bauer, & Erdogan, 2009).…”

Section: Suggestions For Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 2 more Smart Citations

Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship in China

2010

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

As the largest and fastest growing transition economy in the world, China's entrance onto the global stage has been swift and dramatic. As such, almost every facet of entrepreneurship, from the identification of nascent opportunities to the challenges of managing triple‐digit growth to the transformation of firms from dying to emerging industries, can be studied as natural experiments. The four papers in this issue are dedicated to exploring entrepreneurial innovation in the Chinese private economy. They include two clinical studies, one on the impact of the Beijing Olympics on entrepreneurship, and the other on the co‐evolution of guanxi networks and entrepreneurial growth. Two studies test theories explaining the organizational drivers of innovation and entrepreneurship. In the best traditions, these four studies offer theoretical insights on the broader implications of entrepreneurship research in the Chinese context. We locate the findings offered by these four papers in the systems, organizational and social contexts of creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship research. Finally, we offer some suggestions for future research and ways in which advances in the theoretical conversation should proceed.

show abstract

Section: The Three Contexts Of Entrepreneurshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Suggestions For Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Suggestions For Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship in China

2010

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…He argued that CPA is ethical if it does not violate or restrict the contestability of politics. Similarly, Gao (2008) and Tian et al (2008) proposed that CPA that pursues appropriate goals (intentions), uses appropriate means and processes, and results in appropriate consequences is absolutely ethical. While Weber (1997) echoed similar views, he argues that ethical standards for CPA should be focused on providing practical guidelines regarding which behaviours should be avoided, even if legal.…”

Section: What Makes Cpa Ethical?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In weak institutional environments, normative ethics barely exist in the Table 1 Synthesis of ethical CPA criteria This is a synthesis of ethical frameworks contained in extant literature. It is built on the works of Gao (2008), Oberman (2004) and Tian et al (2008) and with insights from Weber (1997), Hamilton and Hoch (1997) and Leong et al (2013) Consequences for representation…”

Section: What Makes Cpa Ethical?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Responsible Firm Behaviour in Political Markets: Judging the Ethicality of Corporate Political Activity in Weak Institutional Environments

Liedong

2020

J Bus Ethics

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

While support for corporate political activity (CPA) is well echoed in the literature, little has been done to empirically examine its ethicality. Moreover, existing ethical CPA frameworks assume normative and rational leanings that are insufficient to provide a comprehensive account of CPA ethicality. Utilizing the Ghanaian context, adopting a multiple case study design involving 28 Directors from 22 firms, and employing a grounded theory approach, I explore how the ethicality of CPA is determined in weak institutional environments. The findings reveal that business executives evaluate ethics at three levels (i.e. context, organizational and strategy) using three principles (i.e. utilitarianism, justice and institutions). Leveraging this knowledge, I present an eclectic framework that bridges the long-standing gap between normative ethical prescriptions and lived ethical realities. In doing so, I move away from abstraction to give "voice" to the actors involved in CPA. I also present a model that shows how the ethical judgement process is influenced by managerial intuition and interactive personal and organizational experiences. This article has important theoretical and practical implications for ethical business-government relations in developing countries.

show abstract

Identifying the tacit entrepreneurial opportunity of latent customer needs in an emerging economy: The effects of experiential market learning versus vicarious market learning

Bao

Wei

Benedetto³

2020

Strategic Entrepreneurship

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Research Summary Focusing on latent customer needs as the essential substance of entrepreneurial opportunities, this study examines the determinants of the identification of such opportunities. Based on organizational learning theory, we explore the effects of experiential market learning (EML) and vicarious market learning (VML), and the contingency of such effects on different dimensions of environmental uncertainty in an emerging economy: demand uncertainty of the task environment and legal inefficiency of the institutional environment. The model was tested through survey among 238 firms in China. We find that both EML and VML facilitate the identification of latent customer needs, while they interact with environmental uncertainty in different ways. This study makes substantial contributions to the extant literature on opportunity identification, strategic entrepreneurship, and the origin of entrepreneurial opportunities. Managerial Summary Latent customer needs, which customers are not aware of or unable to articulate, serve as a catalyst for firm growth and are integral to the business model design. How can firms identify such essential entrepreneurial opportunities? We investigate this question in an emerging economy in which latent needs are more frequently encountered and find that both learning from direct market experience (EML) and learning from other firms' market experience (VML) increase the likelihood of identifying latent needs, while VML is more influential than EML. Facing high demand uncertainty, firms should rely more on VML than EML to identify latent needs, whereas in an uncertain institutional environment with a weak legal system, firms should place less emphasis on VML and more on EML in the identification of latent needs.

show abstract

A Study of the Ethical Issues of Private Entrepreneurs Participating in Politics in China

Cited by 23 publications

References 23 publications

Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship in China

Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship in China

Responsible Firm Behaviour in Political Markets: Judging the Ethicality of Corporate Political Activity in Weak Institutional Environments

Identifying the tacit entrepreneurial opportunity of latent customer needs in an emerging economy: The effects of experiential market learning versus vicarious market learning

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About