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9780700715244

Rethinking Chinese Transnational Enterprises: Cultural Affinity and Business Strategies

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  • ISBN13:

    9780700715244

  • ISBN10:

    070071524X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2002-02-07
  • Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon

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Summary

Affinity to the Chinese culture, personalized social networks and a firm control of ownership and management have often been considered the key ingredients for the success of many diaspora Chinese transnational enterprises in South China and Southeast Asia. In view of the recent Asian crisis and the rapid changes imposed by globalization, scholars are increasingly concerned whether these family-owned Chinese transnational enterprises would survive the challenges in the new millennium. Bringing together a group of scholars and researchers from different fields and disciplines, this volume documents and dissects the dynamics of Chinese transnational enterprises throughout the 20th and into the 21st century. The book begins by clarifying and highlighting the concepts, theories and work in progress that are currently being contested in the discourse on Chinese transnational enterprises. A wide variety of case studies follows, illustrating how Chinese entrepreneurs and their businesses have used theirbusiness ties and networks to organise their capital and labour to create new business opportunities, and to restructure their enterprises to adapt to and overcome grave economic and socio-political conditions. Specifically, contributors examine the recent transformation of Chinese transnational enterprises in terms of business structures, modes of operation, style of management and crisis management strategies in the face of increasing internationalization and globalization. The extension of western enterprise into China in the shape of joint ventures is also scrutinised.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Glossary
Maps
Notes on Contributors
Introductionp. 1
Mismatched Cultural Affinity: Industrial Relations in Overseas Chinese Enterprises in South Chinap. 16
Receptiveness to Changing Practices in Human Resource Management: A Comparison of Mainland Chinese and Taiwanese Employees in German-Chinese Businessp. 38
The German Machine Tool Service - A Work Floor Case Study of a German-Based Transnational Small Enterprise in Chinap. 64
Chineseness and Chinese Capitalism in East and Southeast Asiap. 83
Southeast Asian Chinese Investment in Xiamen: The Li Family during the 1920s and 1930s as a Case Studyp. 102
Donations of Overseas Chinese to Xiamen Since 1978p. 123
Southeast Asian Chinese Transnational Enterprises in China: Qaoxiang Ties and the Zheng Familyp. 139
Doing Business in Southeast Asia and Southern China - Booms and Busts of the Eu Yan Sang Business Conglomerates, 1876-1941p. 158
Managing Traditional Chinese Family Firms Across Borders: Four Generations of Entrepreneurship in Eu Yan Sangp. 184
Transnational Chinese Business in Tianjin: Rethinking Cultural Affinity and Economic Performancep. 208
Chinese Land and Property Companies: Asset Bubbles, Financial Innovation, and Riskp. 227
Asian Crisis, Corporate and Financial Restructuring, and Transformation of Traditional Chinese Enterprisesp. 240
Winners and Losers - The Crisis Strategies of Diaspora Chinese Capitalismp. 262
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