Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Business Groups and Economic Development
  • Part One. Chinese Business Networks: A Comparative View
  • Introduction
  • A. General Perspectives
  • Chinese Entrepreneurs and Business Trust
  • Types of Trust
  • System Trust
  • Personal Trust
  • Confucianism and Modernization
  • References
  • Weak Organizations and Strong Linkages: Managerial Ideology and Chinese Family Business Networks
  • Cultural Influences
  • The Effect of Managerial Ideology
  • Strategic Patterns
  • Hong Kong and Taiwan Business Strategies
  • Explaining the Network StrengthThe Larger Context of Efficiency
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • The Organizational Foundations of Western and Chinese Commerce: A Historical and Comparative Analysis
  • Changes in Western Commercial Organization
  • Changes in Chinese Economic Organization
  • Regional Relationships and Family Firms in the Conduct of Modern Chinese Business
  • References
  • B. Chinese Business Networks in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore
  • €œPersonal Trustâ€? in the Large Businesses in Taiwan: A Traditional Foundation for Contemporary Economic ActivitiesIntroduction
  • Personal Trust in Business Organization
  • Personal Trust in its Institutional Context
  • Concluding Remarks
  • References
  • The Role of Personal Networks in the Making of Taiwanâ€?s Guanxiqiye (Related Enterprises)
  • Introduction
  • Networks of Joint Investments: The Case of the Tainanbang
  • Political Connections
  • Networks of Inheritance
  • Concluding Remarks
  • References
  • Business Groups in a Dynamic Environment: Hong Kong 1976â€?1986Theoretical Framework
  • An Integrated Model
  • Hong Kong Business Groups
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix One: A Brief Description of Business Groups in 1976
  • Appendix Two: A Brief Description of Business Groups in 1981
  • Appendix Three: A Brief Description of Business Groups in 1986
  • References
  • Ethnicity, Polity, and Economy: A Case Study of the Mandarin Trade and the Chinese Connection
  • Introduction
  • Mandarin Oranges and Mandarin Trade
  • The NEP and Chinese Businessmen in Malaysia
  • Encouraging Direct Trade with ChinaThe 1985 Mandarin Orange Incident
  • Ethnic Connection and State Intervention
  • Conclusion and Discussion
  • References
  • Centripetal Authority, Differentiated Networks: The Social Organization of Chinese Firms in Singapore
  • Introduction
  • Organization of a Chinese Family Firm
  • Stages in the Development of a Chinese Family Firm
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • State Capitalism, Multinational Corporations, and Chinese Entrepreneurship in Singapore