The geographic concentration of China’s e-business sector represents beyond the ordinary image. The study focused on its analyses on 446 China’s e-business enterprises. The results show that a) Beijing, Guangdong, and Zhejiang are three emerging clusters whose enterprise dynamics have spread beyond the commonly mentioned major high technology regions, and b) the regional economic status and ICT infrastructure condition are only necessary conditions of being a gathering centre, instead of sufficient conditions. Furthermore, China’s e-business sector is mainly influenced by the capital effect, and its geographic concentration has impressive combination with the location, which depends not on local public sectors’ deliberate efforts in doing business promotions, but on the founders’ social relationships.

Yu SUN, Xingxuan KUANG, Dazhi SUN. (2016) The Geographic Concentration of China’s E-business Enterprises: Where They Gather and Why. Electronic Markets: The International Journal on Networked Business, 26(1): 31–42.