Chee-Kiong (Hrsg.) Tong

Chinese Business

Rethinking Guanxi and Trust in Chinese Business Networks

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The nature, institutional foundations, and issues surrounding the apparent success of Chinese business networks are examined in this book. Major concepts such as guanxi, xinyong and gangqing, exploring the nature of trust, relationships and sentiments in Chinese business networks, are re-examined. A significant amount of literature has been devoted to the study of Chinese business, and it largely falls into two broad schools: the culturalist approach, arguing for an essentialist formulation to explain success and the market approach, suggesting that there is nothing inherently unique about Chinese business. This book critiques both these appr… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-981-4451-85-7
EAN: 9789814451857
Produktnummer: 18261112
Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 144 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 1'362 KB
Auflage: 2014
Abbildungen: 9 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, Bibliographie

Über den Autor

Tong Chee Kiong is Professor of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. He is also Special Academic Advisor and Chair Professor at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) as well as the Director of the Institute of Asian Studies, UBD. Chee Kiong's research interests focus on the Chinese in Southeast Asia, religion and religious change and Asian business networks. His recent publications include Chinese Death Rituals (2004), Rationalizing Religion: Religious Conversion, Revivalism, and Competition in Singapore (2007), and Identity and Ethnic Relations in Southeast Asia: Racializing Chineseness (2010). Chee Kiong has also published papers in the British Journal of Sociology, International Migration Review, Diaspora, Child Abuse and Neglect, International Sociology, and Journal of Asian Business.