In this study, we seek to understand the key differences between the entrepreneurial experience for Mexican immigrant and US-born Mexican entrepreneurs. We focus on differences in motivation for start-up, reliance on ethnic enclaves and business management practices. Using data from the 2005 National Minority Business Owner Survey, our sample consisted of 156 Mexican American entrepreneurs (55 ...

Access to finance appears to be among the most severe obstacles of the private firms’ growth particularly in developing and less developed countries. Using the micro data over 1,500 enterprises, our study aims to understand the determinants of firm-level access to external finance before and after the global financial crisis 2008-09, and how in general the crisis affected the financing obstacle...

The paper explores the factors influencing the extent of regional sourcing by multinational manufacturing firms using data collected by interview from 50 foreignand UK-owned plants in Yorkshire and the Humber. Higher levels of regional sourcing are observed where certain demand characteristics coincide with strengths in the regional supply base. A ‘corporate filter’ reduces regional sourcing bu...

The goal of this paper is to provide an analysis of corporate governance in China. We examine corporate governance as it has evolved with China’s economic reform and how it has been influenced by laws and regulations, politics, and Chinese culture. The paper focuses predominantly on corporate governance in publicly listed state-owned enterprises. Many problems in the current corporate governanc...

As electricity networks expand, television is second only to lighting in terms of priority uses. A recent survey of households in a rural area of Indonesia showed how rapidly the technology spread. Within two years of electrification, television ownership was 30 percent. Within seven years of electrification, household ownership rates reached 60 percent –this in an area where average incomes we...

This paper focuses on the efficiency of China’s new Anti-monopoly law. The monopoly enterprises seriously influence the equality of social distribution. In China, the “State-owned enterprises monopoly” is a controversial argument items. It has great influence on the efficiency of the anti-monopoly law enforcement. In this paper, this problem will be discussed.

An important outcome of technological change is industry “convergence,” as a new technology spurs competition between established firms from different industries. We study the reactions of securities analysts, as important sources of institutional pressures for firms, to the similar product/market strategies undertaken by firms from different prior industries responding to industry convergence....

[Abstract] This article examines, through the grooves of the record disc as a site, the inscription of the human voice onto the recorded medium, and the way recording technology has changed how the listener hears and comprehends the physical body. Recording technology allowed human presence to be captured onto a concrete and tactile medium, and enabled the material object of the recording to th...

This chapter presents a sequence of simple and related models to analyze the strategic use of natural resources. Game theory is the natural tool for such an analysis, whether the resource is private or publicly owned, whether it is renewable or exhaustible, whether the game is static or dynamic, and whether or not the users can strategically invest in technologies. Equilibrium extraction is too...

We consider how government-owned enterprises affect privately owned rivals. Specifically, we compare the types of markets that municipally owned telecommunications providers in the United States serve to the types of markets that competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) serve. We find that CLECs focus on potential profitability while municipalities appear to respond to other factors, such as...