Asian Entrepreneurship

Léo-Paul Dana is Professor at Dalhousie University, and at Montpellier Business School. He is also affiliated with Kingston University. A graduate of McGill University and HEC-Montreal, he served as Marie Curie Fellow at the Princeton University Department of Sociology, and Visiting Professor at INSEAD.  He has published extensively in a variety of journals including: Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice; International Business Review; International Small Business Journal; Journal of Business Research; Journal of Small Business Management; Journal of World Business; Small Business Economics; and Technological Forecasting & Social Change.

VOLUME ONE: CONTEXTUAL ISSUES 
Part One: Culture & Traditions
Small Business in a Non-Entrepreneurial Society - Leo Paul Dana
Small Business in Xinjiang - Leo Paul Dana
Chinese Entrepreneurship in a Cultural and Economic Perspective - Alina M. Zapalska and Will Edwards
Entrepreneurial Orientation among the Youth of India: The Impact of Culture, Education and Environment - Nancy Levenburg and Thomas V. Schwarz
Entrepreneurial Capital, Social Values and Islamic Traditions: Exploring the Growth of Women-Owned Enterprises in Pakistan - Muhammad Azam Roomi
Part Two: Gender & Family
Israeli Women Entrepreneurs: An Examination of Factors Affecting Performance - Miri Lerner, Candida Brush and Robert Hisrich
Female Business Owners in Singapore and Elsewhere: A Review of Studies - Ramin Cooper Maysami and Valerie Priscilla Goby
Entrepreneurship in China: Characteristics, Attributes, and Family Forces Shaping the Emerging Private Sector - David Pistrui et al.
Women Entrepreneurship in Asian Developing Countries: Their Development and Main Constraints - Tulus Tambunan
Impact of Women’s Home-based Enterprise on Family Dynamics: Evidence from Jordan - Haya Al-Dajani and Susan Marlow
How Effective Is Government Support for Korean Women Entrepreneurs in Small and Medium Enterprises? - John Ha Lee, So Young Sohn and Yong Han Ju
What the Numbers Tell: The Impact of Human, Family and Financial Capital on Women and Men’s Entry into Entrepreneurship in Turkey - Dilek Cetindamar et al.
Market Orientation and Entrepreneurship in Chinese Family Business: A Socialisation View - Henry X. Shi and Leo-Paul Dana
Women’s Empowerment and Micro-Entrepreneurship in India: Constructing a New Development Paradigm? - Maria Costanza Torri and Andrea Martinez
Emergent Identity Work and Institutional Change: The ‘Quiet’ Revolution of Japanese Middle-Class Housewives - Aegean Leung, Charlene Zietsma and Ana Maria Peredo
VOLUME TWO: HUMAN CAPITAL
Part Three: Education
Training Needs of the Small Enterprise Sector in Asian Countries - Robert Nelson
Entrepreneurial Development Programmes: The Malaysian Experience - Chee Peng Lim
Entrepreneurship Education in Bangladesh: A Beginning - Lee C. Nehrt
The Education and Training of Entrepreneurs in Asia - Leo Paul Dana
Entrepreneurship Education in China - Jun Li, Yuli Zhang and Harry Matlay
Influences on Students Attitudes toward Entrepreneurship: A Multi-country Study - Sang M. Lee et al.
Towards Enhancing Entrepreneurship Development in Oman - Golam Mostafa Khan and Darwish Almoharby
Education and Entrepreneurial Activity: A Comparison of White and South Asian Men - Piers Thompson, Dylan Jones-Evans and Caleb C.Y. Kwong
Entrepreneurship Education in Japanese Universities – How Do We Train for Risk Taking in a Culture of Risk Adverseness? - Teruo Shinato, Katsuyuki Kamei and Leo-Paul Dana
Are We Committed to Teach Entrepreneurship in Business School? An Empirical Analysis of Lecturers in India, Singapore and Malaysia - Rohit H. Trivedi
Part Four: Production of Economic Value
Finance and Performance of Small Manufacturing Firms in Singapore - Ch’ng Hak Kee and Chang Zeph-Yun
Financial Analysis of Palestinian Industry Including Small Scale Firms - Nidal Rashid Sabri
Quality Management by Small Manufacturers in Korea: An Explanatory Study - Anon
The Changing Competitiveness of Taiwan’s Manufacturing SMEs - Ming-Wen Hu and Chi Schive
An Analysis of Growth Stages in Small Firms: A Case Study of Automobile Ancillaries in India - Reshmi Mitra and Venugopal Pingali
The Dynamics of Limited Breaking Out: The Case of the Arab Manufacturing Businesses in Israel - Israel Drori and Miri Lerner
Determinants of Innovative Activity in Japanese Technology-based Start-up Firms - Michael Lynskey
Stories and the Discursive Dynamics of Institutional Entrepreneurship: The Case of Israeli High-tech after the Bubble - Tammar B. Zilber
Story-Branding by Empire Entrepreneurs: Nike, Child Labour, and Pakistan’s Soccer Ball Industry - David M. Boje and Farzad R. Khan
India Shining? A Two-Wave Study of Business Constraints upon Micro and Small Manufacturing Firms in India - Shobha S. Das and Amit Das
VOLUME THREE: EXTERNAL SUPPORT 
Part Five: Networks, Clusters & Other Linkages
Inter-Firm Scalar Linkage in India: A Class within the Small Scale Industry - Amita Shah
Collective Dynamism and Firm Strategy: Study of an Indian Industrial Cluster - Keshabananda Das
Small but Not Independent: SMEs in Japan - Leo Paul Dana
Japanese SMEs and Independence: A Different View - David F. Evans
Manufacturing Strategies of Network-based Small Firms: Observations on the Textile Industry in Taiwan - Wen-Hsien Chen
Innovation, Networking and the New Industrial Clusters: The Characteristics of Networks and Local Innovation Capabilities in the Turkish Industrial Clusters - Ayda Eraydin and Bilge Armatli-Köroglu
Developing of Rural Manufacturing SME Clusters in a Developing Country: The Indonesian Case - Tulus Tambunan
Network Dynamics and New Ventures in China: A Longitudinal Study - Bat Batjargal
Business Owners’ Network Size and Business Growth in China: The Role of Comprehensive Social Competency - Xiang-yang Zhao
Creative Industry Clusters’ and the ‘Entrepreneurial City’ of Shanghai - Jane Zheng
Part Six: Policy & Assistance
A Marxist Mini-Dragon? Entrepreneurship in Today’s Vietnam - Leo Paul Dana
The Importance of Support Services to Small Enterprise in Bangladesh - Jahangir Hossain Sarder, Dipak Ghosh and Peter Rosa
Small Business as a Supplement in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) - Leo Paul Dana
Small Business in Israel - Leo Paul Dana
Creating Entrepreneurs in India - Leo Paul Dana
Government Assistance for the Small Retailer: The Case of Singapore - Loo-Lee Sim
Small and Medium Enterprises in Korea: Achievements, Constraints and Policy Issues - Jeffrey B. Nugent and Seung-Jae Yhee
Measuring the Effectiveness of Credit Guarantee Schemes: Evidence from Malaysia - Grahame Boocock and Mohd Noor Mohd Shariff
Examining the Impact of New Policy Facilitating SME Succession in Japan: From a Viewpoint of Risk Management in Family Business - Katsuyuki Kamei and Leo-Paul Dana
Benefits of a Registration Policy for Microenterprise Performance in India - Smriti Sharma
VOLUME FOUR: INTERNATIONALISATION 
Part Seven: International Activities
Small and Medium-Sized Japanese Joint Ventures in Korea - Jinjoo Lee and Young-suk Hyun
Export Behaviour of Small Firms in Singapore - Wong Kwei Cheong and Kwan Wai Chong
Export Behaviour and Attitudes of Small- and Medium-Sized Korean Manufacturing Firms - K. Mark Weaver and Jong-moo Pak
Deciding to Export: An Exploratory Study of Singaporean Entrepreneurs - Leo Paul Dana, Robert T. Hamilton and Kirsten Wick
Internationalization and Alliance Formation: Evidence from Turkish SMEs - Mehmet Ali Ulubasoglu, Muhammet Akdis and Sabahat Bayrak Kök
The Moderating Effects of Home Region Orientation on R&D Investment and International SME Performance: Lessons from Korea - Hyeock Lee and Matthew R. Marvel
Industry Structure Characteristics and International Entrepreneurship in India’s Software Industry - Sumit K. Majumdar, Davina Vora and Ashok K. Nag
The Influence of Networking on the Internationalization of SMEs: Evidence from Internationalized Chinese Firms - Yee Kwan Tang
Footloose and Fancy-Free: Sojourning Entrepreneurs in China - Tamar Almor and Orly Yeheskel
Chinese Private Firms and Internationalization: Effects of Family Involvement in Management and Family Ownership - Xiaoya Liang, Lihua Wang and Zhiyu Cui
Part Eight: Asian Expatriates & Returnees
Survival Rates of Asian and White Retailers - David McEvoy and Howard Aldrich
Boomerang Entrepreneurs Journal of Small Business Management - Leo Paul Dana
Immigrant Entrepreneurship and Business Patterns: A Comparison of Koreans and Iranians in Los Angeles - Pyong Gap Min and Mehdi Bozorgmehr
Immigrant Place Entrepreneurs in Los Angeles, 1970-99 - Ivan Light
Focusing on Focus Groups: Lessons from a Research Project Involving a Bangladeshi Community - Grahame Fallon and Reva Berman Brown
Changing Cultures: An International Study of Migrant Entrepreneurs - Robert Hamilton, Leo-Paul Dana and Camilla Benfell
Religious Institutions and Ethnic Entrepreneurship: The Korean Ethnic Church as a Small Business Incubator - Hyunsun Choi
The Role of (Transnational) Social Capital in the Start-up Processes of Immigrant Businesses: The Case of Chinese and Turkish Restaurant Businesses in Finland - Saija Katila and Östen Wahlbeck
Historicizing the ‘Ethnic’ in Ethnic Entrepreneurship: The Case of the Ethnic Chinese in Bangkok - Juliette Konig and Michiel Verver
A Cultural Crossroads at the ′′Bloody Angle”: The Chinatown Tongs and the Development of New York City’s Chinese American Community - Michelle Chen
VOLUME FIVE: NICHE ARTICLES 
Part Nine: Special Topics
The Sari-Sari Store: Informal Retailing in the Philippines - Kuang-Jung Chen
Change, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation in the Republic of Kazakhstan - Leo Paul Dana
The Rugged Entrepreneurs of Iran’s Small-Scale Mining - Hamid Etemad and Kamaleddin S. Salmasi
Sustainable Development in the Maldives - Leo-Paul Dana
The Impact of Planning and Control Sophistication on Performance of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Evidence from Sri Lanka - Hema Wijewardena et al.
Influences on the Survival and Failure of Small Firms in Malaysia - Graham Hall and Kalsom Abd. Wahab
The Development of Chinese Small and Medium Enterprises and Human Resource Management: A Review - Li Xue Cunningham and Chris Rowley
Which Entrepreneurs Bribe and What Do They Get from It? Exploratory Evidence from Vietnam - Gjalt de Jong, Phan Anh Tu and Hans van Ees
Credit-worthiness of a Borrower and the Selection Process in Micro-finance: A Case Study from the Urban Slums of India - Sohini Paul
Transformative Subsistence Entrepreneurship: A Study in India - Srinivas Sridharan et al.
Part Ten: Comparative Studies
Industrial Development Efforts in Malaysia and Singapore - Leo Paul Dana
The Dynamics of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Korea and Other Asian NIEs - Philippe Regnier
The Development of Entrepreneurship in Macao and Hong Kong: A Comparative Study - Leo Paul Dana
Policy Interventions for Industrial Network Formation: Contrasting Historical Underpinnings of the Small Business Policy in Japan and the United States - Yuko Aoyama
A Comparison of Determinants for Business Start-Up in the U.S. and Korea - Sang Suk Lee
The Relation of Partner Entrepreneurial Characteristics to Strategic Alliance: A Comparative US-China Study - Robert Mockler, Dorothy G. Dologite and Marc E. Gartenfeld
An Institutional Analysis of Marketing Practices of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan - Wai-Sum Siu
Cross-Cultural Similarities and Differences in Characteristics Attributed to Entrepreneurs: A Three-Nation Study - Vishal Gupta and Cheryl Fernandez
Varieties of Export-oriented Entrepreneurship in Asia - Siri Terjesen and Jolanda Hessels
Direct Ties, Prior Knowledge, and Entrepreneurial Resource Acquisitions in China and Singapore - Jing Zhang, Pek-Hooi Soh and Poh-kam Wong