Ethnic Business

Ethnic Business
Author: Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0415310113

The influence that Chinese communities have had in various Asian countries has been quite staggering. This book is a collection of essays from important internationally-based thinkers on this interesting subject.

The Bamboo Network

The Bamboo Network
Author: Murray L. Weidenbaum
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1996
Genre: China
ISBN: 068482289X

Following in the tradition of generations of expatriate Chinese merchants, they began establishing small family businesses. Today, the authors show, these have expanded into conglomerate business empires. Entrusting corporate divisions almost exclusively to relatives, and dealing extensively with fellow expatriates, these entrepreneurs have formed close-knit and formidable business spheres throughout Southeast Asia - a "bamboo network."

Economic Success of Chinese Merchants in Southeast Asia

Economic Success of Chinese Merchants in Southeast Asia
Author: Janet Tai Landa
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2016-11-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3642540198

This book provides an original analysis of the economic success of Overseas Chinese merchants in Southeast Asia: The ethnically homogeneous group of Chinese middlemen is an informal, low-cost organization for the provision of club goods, e.g. contract enforcement, that are essential to merchants’ success. The author’s theory - and various extensions, with emphasis on kinship and other trust relationships - draws on economics and the other social sciences, and beyond to evolutionary biology. Empirical material from her fieldwork forms the basis for developing her unique, integrative and transdisciplinary theoretical framework, with important policy implications for understanding ethnic conflict in multiethnic societies where minority groups dominate merchant roles.

Essential Outsiders

Essential Outsiders
Author: Daniel Chirot
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780295976136

Ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia, like Jews in Central Europe until the Holocaust, have been remarkably successful as an entrepreneurial and professional minority. Whole regimes have sometimes relied on the financial underpinnings of Chinese business to maintain themselves in power, and recently Chinese businesses have led the drive to economic modernization in Southeast Asia. But at the same time, they remain, as the Jews were, the quintessential “outsiders.” In some Southeast Asian countries they are targets of majority nationalist prejudices and suffer from discrimination, even when they are formally integrated into the nation.

The Chinese in Southeast Asia and Beyond

The Chinese in Southeast Asia and Beyond
Author: Ching-Hwang Yen
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2008
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9812790489

The Chinese in Southeast Asia, with their growing economic clout, have been attracting attention from politicians, scholars and observers in recent decades. The rise of China as a global economic power and its profound influence over Southeast Asia has cast a spotlight on the role of Southeast Asian Chinese in the region''s economic relations with China.The Southeast Asian Chinese as an economic force and their growing importance with China are, to a certain extent, determined by the nature and development of their communities. This book uses a multifaceted approach to unravel the forces that helped to transform the communities in the past. Containing 17 papers written within a span of six and a half years, from 2000 to 2006, the book focuses on the social, economic and political aspects of these communities, with special emphasis on the Chinese in Malaysia and Singapore.

The Ethnic Chinese in the ASEAN States

The Ethnic Chinese in the ASEAN States
Author: Leo Suryadinata
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1989
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9789813035119

The bibliographical essays on the studies of the ethnic Chinese in the ASEAN states will be extremely useful as it is the first monograph of its kind and also up-to-date. It begins with a general overview on the studies of the ethnic Chinese in the ASEAN states, and is followed by five country studies and two essays on specific topics. All essays in this volume were written by specialists.

Chinese Business Enterprise in Asia

Chinese Business Enterprise in Asia
Author: Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2018-10-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429770170

This volume, first published in 1995, looks at the development of Chinese business and management practices across Asia from the late nineteenth century. Experts examine how familism and informal networks have contributed to Chinese entrepreneurial success. They demonstrate how effective these factors have been in overcoming restrictive state policies: through alliances with ethnic and international traders and connections between financial networks in Hong Kong, South East Asia, China and Australia. An institutional model of analysis is developed to determine the efficacy of Chinese business practices and structures. The relationship between culture and environment is examined as well as how modern institutions are embedded not only in culture but also in history and economics.

Ethnic Chinese as Southeast Asians

Ethnic Chinese as Southeast Asians
Author: Leo Suryadinata
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1997
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9813055502

More than 80 per cent of the Chinese outside China live in Southeast Asia and many of them have been integrated into the local societies. However, the resurgence of China and ethnic Chinese investment in their ancestral land have caused concern among some non-Chinese Southeast Asian elites. They have begun to question the position and identity of the Chinese population in their countries. Ethnic Chinese as Southeast Asians addresses these ethnic Chinese issues, as well as ethnic Chinese relations with China and with indigenous groups in the region. Written by leading scholars in Southeast Asia, including both ethnic Chinese and non-Chinese, the volume also explores the position of the ethnic Chinese in contemporary as well as the future Southeast Asia, providing readers with a most up-to-date and comprehensive study on the subject.

Ethnic Chinese Business In Asia: History, Culture And Business Enterprise

Ethnic Chinese Business In Asia: History, Culture And Business Enterprise
Author: Ching-hwang Yen
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 532
Release: 2013-09-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9814578444

This unique volume provides a broad introduction to the ethnic Chinese business in Asia, with focus on the ethnic Chinese in East and Southeast Asia. The growing interest in ethnic Chinese business reflects its importance in these two regional economies, and its relations with China's economy — the world's new economic powerhouse. It examines the nature and characteristics of the ethnic Chinese business, such as business networks, family business and conglomerates, concepts of xinyong and guanxi, and entrepreneurship and management. It also examines the input of history and culture in the formation and operation of ethnic Chinese business. The second half of the book is devoted to detailed regional studies, covering the Chinese in Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Taiwan. This book provides an excellent introduction for tertiary students in business schools, and for prospective businessmen who wish to do business with the Chinese in East and Southeast Asia.

Corporate Conquests

Corporate Conquests
Author: Charles Patterson Giersch
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781503611641

The Muleteers -- Families -- The revolutionaries -- The excluded -- Mining -- The technocrat -- Corporations, the state, and ethnic difference.