The geographic concentration of China’s e-business enterprises: where they gather and why

Yu Sun (), Xingxuan Kuang and Dazhi Sun ()
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Yu Sun: Beijing Normal University
Xingxuan Kuang: Beijing Normal University
Dazhi Sun: Tianjin University

Electronic Markets, 2016, vol. 26, issue 1, No 4, 42 pages

Abstract: Abstract The geographic concentration of China’ s e-business sector represents beyond the ordinary image. The study focused on its analyses on 446 China’s e-business enterprises. The results show that a) Beijing, Guangdong, and Zhejiang are three emerging clusters whose enterprise dynamics have spread beyond the commonly mentioned major high-technology regions, and b) the regional economic status and ICT infrastructure condition are only necessary conditions of being a gathering centre, instead of sufficient conditions. Furthermore, China’s e-business sector is mainly influenced by the capital effect, and its geographic concentration has impressive combination with the location, which depends not on local public sectors’ deliberate efforts in doing-business promotions, but on the founders’ social relationships.

Keywords: China’s e-business enterprise; Geographic concentration; Beijing capital effect founder (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R12 R3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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