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Organizational capability, entrepreneurship, and environment: Chinese multinationals, 1912-1949

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2008, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, History.
Chinese multinationals were significant in Republican China between 1912 and 1949. A preliminary database, including forty-eight Chinese multinationals before 1949, is created. Chinese multinationals arose mainly in the late 1930s and the late 1940s. Their overseas branches were found chiefly in Southeast Asia and to a lesser extent in the United States, Japan, and Europe. Chinese multinationals clustered in light and service industries. The dynamic interaction of organizational capability, entrepreneurship and environment determined the rise and performance of Chinese multinationals. Chinese multinationals gained organizational capabilities between 1912 and 1937. Chinese entrepreneurs were ambitious in discovering opportunities in overseas markets. The key constraining factor was bad timing and environmental adversities. Chinese multinationals, when they just got started, met extremely adverse environments (WWII and the Chinese Civil War). If China’s and the world environment had been more favorable in the 1930s and the 1940s, Chinese multinationals should have been more developed.
Christopher Reed (Advisor)
218 p.

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  • Wu, S. (2008). Organizational capability, entrepreneurship, and environment: Chinese multinationals, 1912-1949 [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1199117660

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Wu, Shijin. Organizational capability, entrepreneurship, and environment: Chinese multinationals, 1912-1949. 2008. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1199117660.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Wu, Shijin. "Organizational capability, entrepreneurship, and environment: Chinese multinationals, 1912-1949." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1199117660

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)