Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: The Overseas Chinese as an Economic Culture
  • The Spirit of Capitalism
  • A Spirit of Chinese Capitalism?
  • Chapter 2. The Sojourners
  • Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore
  • Indonesia
  • The Philippines
  • Malaysia
  • Thailand
  • The Nanyang
  • Chapter 3. The Psycho-Social Legacy of China
  • Fundamental Beliefs and Values
  • Social Structures
  • Relationship Rules
  • Rules for Action
  • Forms of Cognition
  • Chapter 4. Seeing Oneself
  • Nature of the Data
  • Perceptions Surrounding the Self
  • Chapter 5. Life in a Networked SocietyChapter 6. The Institutional Legacy of China
  • The Historical Progress of Chinese Business
  • The Origins of Defensiveness and Insecurity
  • The Anatomy of Paternalism
  • The Endurance of Personalism
  • Chapter 7. The Chinese Family Business
  • The Environment of Business
  • The Firmâ€?s Internal Structure
  • Dilemmas of Growth and/or Stability
  • Chapter 8. Society at Large
  • Vertical Order
  • Pragmatic Cooperation
  • Chapter 9. Sources of Efficiency and of Failure
  • Vertical Cooperation
  • Horizontal Cooperation
  • ControlAdaptiveness
  • Chapter 10. The Significance of the Overseas Chinese
  • The Overseas Chinese and Western Business
  • The Overseas Chinese and China
  • Implications for Organization and Management Theory
  • Economic Development and the Role of Culture
  • Appendix. Methodology for the Study
  • References
  • Index