Managing the Local:on Lu Zuofu's Entrepreneurial Characteristics with Chinese Features
As an extraordinary entrepreneur,Lu Zuofu takes"managing the local"as his lifelong ambition,which becomes clear and firm with the progress of his career and the change of times.Judging from Lu Zuofu's words and actions,the so-called"managing the local"means taking the overall construction of a community as its goal of operation,while at the same time he not only establishes enterprises with the ideal of"managing the local",but also handles all local undertakings with the attitude of operating enterprises,so as to get full play of the entrepreneurial functions.Lu Zuofu's ambition of"managing the local"and its practice are an important expression of the characteristics of Chinese entrepreneurs which are not only different from the meaning of ordinary entrepreneurs which have been dominated for about 400 years,but also different from the meaning of western"social entrepreneurs"newly introduced in the past 20 years.We may probably put forward a new concept of"local entrepreneur"to make enrichments and improvements.Moreover,the path and mode of local construction ranging from enterprises through the local to the national created by Lu Zuofu is conducive to the development of production and the improvement of people's living standards,and is of great value to the realization of the common prosperity of Chinese-style modernization.To explore the characteristics and functions of entrepreneurs from the perspective of Chinese modernization forms a new topic for entrepreneur studies and for the history of Chinese modernization.
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