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Fellow-townsmenship as the mechanism for exploring and exploiting business opportunities : a longitudinal reflection of the nineteenth century Ningbo entrepreneurs in Shanghai
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Liu, Martin J., Huang, Jimmy C., Yee-loong Chong, Alain, Guan, Zhengzhi and Yannopoulou, Natalia (2015) Fellow-townsmenship as the mechanism for exploring and exploiting business opportunities : a longitudinal reflection of the nineteenth century Ningbo entrepreneurs in Shanghai. Business History, 57 (6). pp. 773-799. doi:10.1080/00076791.2014.962020 ISSN 0007-6791.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2014.962020
Abstract
This research examines how fellow-townsmenship, a distinctive homophilous social network, functioned among Ningbo entrepreneurs pertaining to their simultaneous exploration and exploitation of business opportunities, or achieving ambidexterity, in the nineteenth century. By investigating data in relevant historical records from museums, archives and libraries, case studies based on two representative Ningbo entrepreneurs from a distinctive business family showcase how those entrepreneurs took advantage of townsmenship to resolve the trade-off between exploration and exploitation. In doing so, simultaneous exploration and exploitation alongside the expansion of fellow townsmenship proved to be effective and successful. This research provides new grounds to examine ambidexterity.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Information Systems & Management Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Journal or Publication Title: | Business History | ||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||
ISSN: | 0007-6791 | ||||
Official Date: | 23 March 2015 | ||||
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Volume: | 57 | ||||
Number: | 6 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 773-799 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1080/00076791.2014.962020 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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