Issue Season
Fall
Document Type
From the Practitioner's Corner
Abstract
Many entrepreneurs are able to manage their businesses within relatively contained and familiar geographical and cultural circles. With a world economy shrinking every day amid a flood of digital information, today’s entrepreneur is increasingly confronted with opportunities to consider new ways to secure vendors and recruit customers. Many unfamiliar possibilities emerge. Should the entrepreneur venture beyond “comfortable” surroundings to consider international connections? Specifically, what about China? How practical is this fetching business temptation of larger markets and lower-cost subcontractors? What are the social, trade, financial, and political issues? Should a “China strategy” be a true entrepreneurial offensive, or rather a defensive response to competition? Is this “China strategy” the promise of yet another entrepreneurial nirvana? Or is it perhaps again a case of “Be careful of what you wish for; it may really come true?”
Recommended Citation
Levangie, Joseph E.
(2005)
"Entrepreneurial Hunger—Shall We Try Chinese?,"
New England Journal of Entrepreneurship: Vol. 8:
No.
2, Article 7.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.sacredheart.edu/neje/vol8/iss2/7