ABSTRACT
The degree to which the extensive business networks of ethnic Chinese in Asia succeed because of ethnic characteristics, or simply because of the sound application of good business practice, is a key question of great current concern to those interested in business, management and economic development in Asia. This book brings together a range of leading experts who present original new research findings and important new thinking on this vital subject. Based on rich empirical research data and a multidisciplinary explanatory framework, this book assesses the role, characteristics and challenges of Chinese entrepreneurship and business networks in various East and Southeast Asian countries: the People's Republic of China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Australia.
Chinese Entrepreneurship and Asian Business Networks demonstrates that Chinese network capitalism is contingent upon, for example, time, place, institutional frameworks, and that explanatory approaches of Chinese economic behaviour which stress culture and ethnicity are too simplistic.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|19 pages
Introduction
part II|41 pages
Coping with Change and Crises – Chinese Businesses Under Siege?
part III|93 pages
Synergies Between the Chinese Diaspora and Chinese Business Organizations in the People's Republic of China and Vietnam
chapter 4|16 pages
Chinese Entrepreneurship and Resilient National Development
chapter |27 pages
Private Business and Socio-Economic Network Relations in the Chinese Community in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
part IV|135 pages
Chinese Network Capitalism and Guanxi Transactions Reconsidered
chapter 8|33 pages
Transnational Entrepreneurship and Chinese Business Networks
chapter 11|12 pages
The Globalization of Southeast Asia and Rooted Capitalism
chapter 12|25 pages
From a Niche to a World City
part V|25 pages
Towards a Comparative Perspective of Ethnic (Chinese) Entrepreneurship
chapter 13|23 pages
Individualism and Collective Forms of Business Organisation
part VI|12 pages
Looking Back and Forward