Status | 已發表Published |
Office on the Move: Mobile Chines and Entrepreneurship in China | |
Mei Wu; Haiyun Lin | |
2011 | |
Source Publication | Knowledge Development and Social Change through Technology: Emerging Studies |
Author of Source | Elayne Coakes |
Publication Place | United States of America |
Publisher | IGI Global |
Pages | 232-246 |
Abstract | Similar to telephony in the 19th century, mobile telephony was first adopted by business people, specifically small and medium-sized entrepreneurs. Their use habits have thus contributed to the evolution of the mobile phone and change in business practice. However; there are limited studies that examine individual business users, and even fewer exploring the social roles of mobile phones for Chinese entrepreneurs This study, applying social shaping of technology complemented with affordance theory and domestication theory, qualitatively analyses implications of the mobile phone constructed by entrepreneurs in Fujian Province, China. Findings indicate that mobile telephony has significantly transformed the business practice of time and space by Fujian entrepreneurs. It changes time constraints by enabling a 24-hour contact in business operations. It affects the spatial location with a mobile office It becomes a platform for staging tricky business performances. It interconnects business and private lives. Consequently it becomes the 'magic wand'- the central axis around which the lives of Fujian entrepreneurs revolve. |
ISBN | 978-1-60960-507-0 |
Document Type | Book chapter |
Collection | Faculty of Social Sciences DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION |
Affiliation | University of Macau, China |
First Author Affilication | University of Macau |
Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Mei Wu,Haiyun Lin. Office on the Move: Mobile Chines and Entrepreneurship in China[M]. Knowledge Development and Social Change through Technology: Emerging Studies, United States of America:IGI Global, 2011, 232-246. |
APA | Mei Wu., & Haiyun Lin (2011). Office on the Move: Mobile Chines and Entrepreneurship in China. Knowledge Development and Social Change through Technology: Emerging Studies, 232-246. |
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