1st Edition

Entrepreneurship and Economic Development in Hong Kong

By Tony Fu-Lai Yu Copyright 1997
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

This is the first systematic study of the nature, operation and contribution of entrepreneurship to the growth of Hong Kong. From a new entrepreneurial perspective of economic development, the author argues that the success of Hong Kong is attributable principally to adaptive entrepreneurship: product imitation; small scale enterprise; subcontracting and spatial arbitrage.

List of figures, List of table, Preface and acknowledgements, 1 THE ECONOMIC SUCCESS OF HONG KONG: A SEARCH FOR AN EXPLANATION, 2 ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: AN ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK, 3 THE HONG KONG ENVIRONMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP, 4 ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE MANUFACTURING SECTOR, 5 ADAPTIVE RESPONSE IN THE TEXTILE AND GARMENT INDUSTRY, 6 ADAPTIVE RESPONSE IN THE ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, 7 ENTREPRENEURSHIP, STRUCTURAL CHANGE AND CATCHING UP, 8 LESSONS FOR DEVELOPING ECONOMIES, 9 CONCLUSIONS, Appendix 1, Appendix 2, Bibliography, Index

Biography

Tony Fu-Lai Yu