Guanxi and Entrepreneurship in Urban China

复旦大学中国经济研究中心讯：张军教授与Michael Troilo合作的论文“Guanxi and Entrepreneurship in Urban China”最近在SSCI经济学杂志Journal of Asia Pacific Economy (Vol.17, No.2, 315-331)上发表。

Guanxi and Entrepreneurship in Urban China

Michael Troilo* and Jun Zhang**

*University of Tulsa, Collins College of Business, 302-D, 800 South Tucker Drive, 800 South Tucker Drive, Tulsa, OK 74120, USA

**China Center for Economic Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433 China

ABSTRACT

We test for the relative importance of guanxi (“connections”) as a catalyst for entrepreneurship in urban China using survey data from five cities for the period 1996-2001. We find that guanxi with the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) is negatively correlated with the likelihood of being either a sole proprietor or an entrepreneur with employees. Family guanxi has no effect for sole proprietors, but is positively correlated with the probability of being an entrepreneur with employees.  These findings add to the literature on entrepreneurship in China by differentiating the effects of various types of guanxi on various forms of entrepreneurship.

JEL classification: H00, O10, P2, P3, Z13.

Keywords: Guanxi, entrepreneurship, urban china, family

企业家与人际关系：来自中国城市的证据

Michael Troilo*  张军**

摘  要：本文基于1996至2001年间，来自中国五城市的调查问卷数据，检验了“人际关系”在企业产生过程中的相对重要性。本文发现与党组织的关系对一个人成为个体户或者拥有雇员的私人企业主没有影响，反而呈现负相关关系。家族关系对个体户的产生并没有显著作用，但是与成为拥有雇员的企业主呈现出正相关关系。通过区分不同类型的关系在不同类型的企业形成过程中所发挥的作用，本文对关于中国企业家的研究作了新的补充。

JEL分类: H00, O10, P2, P3, Z13.

关键词：人际关系，企业家，城市，中国，家族