Perceptions of Self-Employment among Mid-Career Executives in the People's Republic of China

Autor/inn/en	Singh, Gangaram; Saghafi, Massoud; Ehrlich, Sanford; De Noble, Alex
Titel	Perceptions of Self-Employment among Mid-Career Executives in the People's Republic of China
Quelle	In: Journal of Career Assessment, 18 (2010) 4, S.393-408 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1069-0727
DOI	10.1177/1069072710374579
Schlagwörter	Economic Progress; Individual Characteristics; Foreign Countries; Public Policy; Self Employment; Administrators; Regression (Statistics); Small Businesses; Entrepreneurship; Work Attitudes; Questionnaires; Measures (Individuals); Personality Traits; Human Capital; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Economic growth; Wirtschaftswachstum; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Ausland; Öffentliche Ordnung; Self-employment; Selbstbestimmte Arbeit; Selbstständiger; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Kleingewerbe; Unternehmungsgeist; Work attitude; Arbeitshaltung; Fragebogen; Messdaten; Individual characteristics; Humankapital
Abstract	Policy makers in transitional economies have recognized the importance of self-employment as a mechanism for economic growth. Institutional support, however, lags this recognition. Individuals, therefore, must draw on their personal characteristics to venture into self-employment. We used a variety of individual characteristics to capture an important antecedent of the transition to self-employment using data from 133 mid-career Chinese executives. At the most aggregate level, hierarchical regression showed that views on self-employment are positively related to having a self-employed relative and openness to experience. A more refined analysis indicated that a variety of individual characteristics are related to perceptions of self-employment. Using these findings, we conclude that public policy will create an environment of inter-generational entrepreneurial activity. We argued, moreover, that the continued transition from state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to privately owned enterprises will require the identification, training, and development of a new breed of self-employed individual. (Contains 4 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10