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Start-Up Wolf : The Shenzhen Model of High-Tech Entrepreneurship.
Title:
Start-Up Wolf : The Shenzhen Model of High-Tech Entrepreneurship.
Author:
Liu, Olivia Yijian.
ISBN:
9781040038703
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (199 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on Chinese Transliteration -- Introduction: Start-up Wolf of Shenzhen -- 1 Contextualising Transnational Entrepreneurs in China -- 2 Performative Governance: The Campaign of Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation -- 3 To be Entrepreneured: Creating Hierarchies among Privileged Biographies -- 4 Entrepreneurship Competitions: The State and Market Ideals of Talents -- 5 Striving Talents: Performing Excellence for Economic Privilege -- 6 Precarious Privilege: Rationalising Wolf-Isation and Sacrifice -- 7 After-Wolf: Downsizing, Resignation, and Self-Reconfiguration -- Ending Remarks: The Shenzhen Model of High-Tech Entrepreneurship and Beyond -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
This book examines how socially privileged entrepreneurial talents adopt and champion the wolf culture, that is, a fast-paced, competitive, and demanding work culture, prevalent since China's mass promotion of entrepreneurship and innovation.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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