Entrepreneurship in Asia: Entrepreneurship knowledge when East meets West

Abstract

Asia differs from other regions of the world with respect to its unique and longstanding cultural, social, economic, and technological attributes, all of which have eluded systematic exploration by entrepreneurship scholars, representing a unique entrepreneurial context. However, such uniqueness should not be restricted to assertions about (among other things) institutional voids, increased difficulty financing new ventures, underdeveloped technology transfer, or undertrained entrepreneurs. This special issue takes up this thread and explores several key attributes—culture, social structure, economic policy, and technology—that represent parts of the broader domains that provide insights for future theory development. Philosophically, it is a perfect Being with its otherness, floated in either East or West, soaked upinto itself, that is essential for us to clinch and to get some light on truth.