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Titolo: |
Ethnic business : Chinese capitalism in Southeast Asia / / edited by Jomo K.S. and Brian C. Folk
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Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York, : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (265 p.) |
Disciplina: | 338.6/422/0959 |
Soggetto topico: | Minority business enterprises - Southeast Asia |
Chinese - Southeast Asia - Economic conditions | |
Entrepreneurship - Southeast Asia | |
Classificazione: | 83.25 |
Altri autori: |
Jomo K. S (Jomo Kwame Sundaram)
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Note generali: | Includes revised papers presented at a workshop held at the University of Malaya in 1997. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Ethnic Business; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Chinese capitalism in Southeast Asia; 3. The politics of 'seeing Chinese' and the evolution of a Chinese idiom of business; 4. The cultural limits of 'Confucian capitalism': power and the invention of the family among Chinese traders in Sarawak; 5. All are flexible, but some are more flexible than others: small-scale Chinese businesses in Malaysia; 6. The leading Chinese-Filipino business families in post-Marcos Philippines |
7. Pre-1997 Sino-Indonesian conglomerates, compared with those of other ASEAN countries8. Determinants of business capability in Thailand; 9. De-mythologizing Charoen Pokphand: an interpretive picture of the CP Group's growth and diversification; 10. Telecommunications, rents and the growth of a liberalization coalition in Thailand; 11. Japanese transnational production networks and ethnic Chinese business networks in East Asia: linkages and regional integration; Glossary; Index | |
Sommario/riassunto: | The role of ethnic Chinese business in Southeast Asia in catalyzing economic development has been hotly debated - and often misunderstood - throughout cycles of boom and bust.This book critically examines some of the key features attributed to Chinese business: business-government relations, the family firm, trust and networks, and supposed 'Asian' values. The in-depth case studies that feature in the book reveal considerable diversity among these firms and the economic and political networks in which they manoeuvre.With contributions from leading scholars and under the impressive edit |
Titolo autorizzato: | Ethnic business ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-138-81107-6 |
1-280-17734-9 | |
0-203-31329-1 | |
0-203-41231-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910808016503321 |
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