Ð In the 1990s, parts of the state bureaucracy in China have been setting up new pro®tseeking, risk-taking businesses. Some of these businesses are entrepreneurial rather than rentseeking, and are an unplanned and unanticipated development in China's market-oriented economic reforms. What are the lessons of this phenomenon for the developing world? State entrepreneurialism may create problems s...

The meanings of being “underclass” in China are increasingly ambivalent when various disadvantaged social groups also get access to digital platforms which become more and influential not just facilitating people’s economic cultural practices online but mediating, distorting, reshaping these processes. Using critical techno-cultural discourse analysis about how the underclass represent poverty ...

This article examines the business of American slavery from perspective enslaved people. It draws narratives fugitivity and interviews with formerly to interrogate how they understood imperatives in antebellum South. argues that peoples’ economic knowledge was cultivated through violence inherent slavery, their ideas about banking understanding entrepreneurialism. Building on current literature...

How does an Amazonian population living at the margins of globalised economy envision their involvement in capitalist market? In this article, we examine entrepreneurial perspectives expressed by leaders Ecuadorian Shuar Transkutukú. Leaders place hope pursuit entrepreneurialism as a way to guarantee domestic and ethnic self-determination. This reflexive process is encapsulated local formula “i...

Higher education institutions in emerging regions of the world are increasingly expected (largely by their governments and community) to promote regional economic development and national competitiveness. This case study on one of the prominent academic universities in Indonesia e Bogor Agricultural University (Institut Pertanian Bogor, IPB) e highlights its successes and lessons learned in man...

With the growing emphasis on social entrepreneurship (SE), many universities are delivering courses (SECs) to develop students’ awareness and aspirations, socially entrepreneurial behaviors. This study investigates extent which ecosystem (EE), entailing entrepreneurism at individual, university regional levels, may impact universities’ decisions offer SECs business students. Using data from 501...