TY - BOOK ID - 8786321 TI - The entrepreneurial state in China PY - 1998 SN - 0415187419 9786610603596 1134661754 1280603593 0203030184 9780203030189 9780415187411 6610603596 9781134661756 9781134661701 1134661703 9781134661749 1134661746 PB - London New York Routledge DB - UniCat KW - China. KW - Corporations, Government. KW - Entrepreneurship. KW - Government business enterprises. KW - Real estate management. KW - Tianjin. KW - Tianjin (China) - Commercial policy. KW - Government business enterprises KW - Government corporations KW - Entrepreneurship KW - Real estate management KW - International Commerce KW - Commerce KW - Business & Economics KW - Corporations, Government KW - Case studies. KW - Case studies KW - Tianjin (China) KW - Commercial policy. KW - Property management KW - Entrepreneur KW - Intrapreneur KW - Authorities, Public (Government corporations) KW - Federal corporations KW - Government-owned corporations KW - Public authorities (Government corporations) KW - Public corporations (Government corporations) KW - Nationalized companies KW - Parastatals KW - Public enterprises KW - State-owned enterprises KW - Ti︠a︡nʹt︠s︡zinʹ (China) KW - Tienchin (China) KW - Tʻien-chin (China) KW - Tʻien-chin-shih (China) KW - Tien-tsin (China) KW - Tenshin (China) KW - Tientsin (China) KW - Ṭiyeng'in (China) KW - Tianjin Municipality (China) KW - Tʻien-chin shih jen min cheng fu (China) KW - Tianjing (China) KW - Tianjin Shi (China) KW - Tʻien-ching (China) KW - Tʻien-ching-shih (China) KW - Tiensen (China) KW - Tientsin Municipality (China) KW - Tiensin (China) KW - Ṭientszin (China) KW - Apartment houses KW - Housing KW - Office buildings KW - Real estate business KW - Capitalism KW - Business incubators KW - Corporations KW - Business enterprises KW - 天津 (China) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8786321 AB - Jane Duckett describes in detail new state business activities in China and explains why they have appeared. Using research on the northern city of Tianjin during the 1990's, she argues that individual departments, within the Chinese state, are involved in the market economy through the establishment of their own businesses. The book demonstrates that many of these businesses are genuinely entrepreneurial in the sense of profit-seeking, risk-taking and productive, rather than rent-seeking, speculative or profiteering.This entrepreneurialism is an important new dimension of state activity ER -