This paper develops a theoretical model to study features of the spontaneous growth of private enterprises in China’s Zhejiang province. The model predicts that in a developing economy where the market environment is immature or unstable, the ownership structure of a typical private enterprise involves a cooperative arrangement between a party with management skills and another party with Guanx...

The actuality of middle and small private enterprises is that “slow birth, little growth, quick death and short life”. As viewed from the character of the financial management, they usually have the financial objective with short views and low effectiveness, which is represented from ten aspects. To improve the problems existing in the finical management of middle and small private enterprises,...

Social responsibility is of great significance for the sustainable development of the whole society as well as every enterprise. Due to some misunderstandings held by China’s private enterprises, some problems such as the lack of honesty, infringing upon laborers’ rights and environmental pollution have been brought about. Therefore, private entrepreneurs are expected to take up their responsib...

Privacy is a prime concern in today’s information society. To protect the privacy of individuals, enterprises must follow certain privacy practices, while collecting or processing personal data. In this chapter we look at the setting where an enterprise collects private data on its website, processes it inside the enterprise and shares it with partner enterprises. In particular, we analyse thre...

Privacy is a prime concern in today’s information society. To protect the privacy of individuals, enterprises must follow certain privacy practices, while collecting or processing personal data. In this chapter we look at the setting where an enterprise collects private data on its website, processes it inside the enterprise and shares it with partner enterprises. In particular, we analyse thre...

This paper empirically studies union effects on the performance of, and employment relations in, China’s private enterprises. The study finds a positive and statistically significant union effect on labor productivity, but not on profitability. It further finds that unions lead to better employee benefits and increased contract signing in employment. These findings suggest that, in the era of t...

In order to be competitive enterprises continuously implement ICT strategies & architectures to improve manufacture, research, products quality, sales, services and costs control. All large enterprises have a local area network, a virtual private network, an Intranet and Internet, servers and workstations for operations, administration and management working together for the same objective: pro...

Indian dairy industry can be divided into two types of enterprises: Liquid Milk and Milk Products. In the procurement and marketing of liquid milk, there is strong presence of co-operative and traditional private channels though the organised sector private enterprises also exist. The packaged liquid milk market alone is of the order of Rs. 12, 000 crore and has been growing at the rate of 10 p...

This paper examines the impact of government-sponsored venture capitalists (GVCs) on the success of enterprises. Using international enterprise-level data, we identify a surprising non-monotonicity in the effect of GVC on the likelihood of exit via initial public offerings (IPOs) or third party acquisitions. Enterprises that receive funding from both private venture capitalists (PVCs) and GVCs ...

We are grateful to James Tybout for access to the data, and to Tilahun Temesgen for excellent research assistance. Correspondence related to the paper should be addressed to [email protected] or [email protected]. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the World Bank, its Executi...