中国商业传统对现代企业家精神的影响研究:传承机理与实证检验

A Study of the Impact of Business Traditions on Enterpreneurship:Inheritance Mechanisms and Empirical Checks

在当前中国经济步入新常态背景下,从历史渊源视角考察现代企业家精神的决定因素问题不仅有助于从理论上解释中国企业家活动的地区差异特征,还有助于为当前经济增长提供新的线索。本文基于中国省级层面的数据资料实证测度了作为历史因素的商业文化传统对现代企业家精神的影响程度。实证研究表明:历史上商业文化传统资源越丰富的地区往往也是拥有丰富的现代企业家创新精神和创业精神的地区,即现代企业家精神的传承和培育具有明显的路径依赖特征。为了减弱内生性问题对估计结果的可能影响,文章使用建国初期的商业贷款占比、识字率作为商业文化传统的工具变量,IV估计结果再次印证了上述结论。

In the current background of a new economy normal,this paper studies modern entrepreneurship determinants from the perspective of the historical origins,which not only helps explain regional differences of the Chinese entrepreneurial activities in theory,but also provides new clues for the current economic growth. The paper conducts an empirical study about the impact mechanism of cultural traditions of the business as historical factors on the entrepreneurship based on the Chinese provincial-level unbalanced panel data. Empirical research shows that,in areas with richer business cultural traditions,it is more conducive to cultivate and propagate the modern entrepreneurship of innovation or venture,namely the inheritance and nurture of modern entrepreneurship has a clear path-dependent characteristic. In order to weaken the endogenous problem that may affect the estimation results,this paper uses commercial loans and the literacy rate as instrumental variables of cultural traditions of the business,and the estimation results once again confirm the above conclusion.