16 The art of creative brokering Leadership in the Chinese punk scene

Anthony Ryan

DOI: 10.4324/9781003363125-19

Introduction

As one of the world's most populous nations with one of the largest economies, China is a fertile ground for context-driven leadership research (Tjosvold et al., 2001). This paper responds to calls to look “beyond traditional entrepreneurial domains to other contexts” (Lingo, 2020, p. 997) and to contextualize and locally inform the study of entrepreneurship in China (Huang et al., 2020; Zhou et al., 2019) by exploring how the development of the music scene in China created conditions for novel practicing of leadership, calling into question narratives around leadership in the country and positing the need for further ...

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