Entrepreneuring on Website

Author

Ma, Qingguo ; Wang, Yida

Author_Institution

Sch. of Manage., Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou

Volume

1

fYear

2006

fDate

21-23 June 2006

Firstpage

86

Lastpage

90

Abstract

This paper investigates the factors that may have great affects on the business of private online firms using e-commerce technology in Zhejiang province, China. Our findings, based on the surveys of 149 Internet enterprises in Zhejiang province, China, show that technology acknowledgement and educational level play very important roles in online entrepreneurship, followed by learning ability and bandwagon pressure of the entrepreneurs. The investment reveals less importance to the online entrepreneuring, the guanxi network is also not significant in enhancing the performance of the online business

Keywords

Internet; electronic commerce; Internet; Website; Zhejiang province; bandwagon pressure; e-commerce; investment; online business; online entrepreneurship; private online firm; Cognition; Companies; Educational technology; Information services; Innovation management; Internet; Investments; Mice; Programming profession; Software systems; Entrepreneuring; influence factorss; private on-line business;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Management of Innovation and Technology, 2006 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Singapore, China

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0147-X

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0148-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMIT.2006.262225

Filename

4035799