The Characteristics and Attributes Of New Chinese Entrepreneurs and Their Emerging Enterprises.

JING ZHAO is associate professor of Management Information Systems in the College of Management at China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China. Her articles about electronic commerce have appeared in magazines and journals, and she has written a book Electronic Commerce: Concepts, Infrastructure, Systems and Strategy that will be published this year. She is an active business consultant and conference participant.

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