Chinese Business in Southeast Asia: Contesting Cultural Explanations, Researching Entrepreneurship

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Terence E. Gomez Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao

Chinese Business in Southeast Asia

Contesting Cultural Explanations, Researching Entrepreneurship

Terence E. Gomez, Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao

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Routledge
09 March 2001

International economics; International business

Although ethnic Chinese capital has contributed

greatly to the postcolonial development of South-East Asia,

scholars and politicians paid scant attention to it until the early 1990s when it became fashionable to assert that Chinese entrepreneurs from South-East Asia, Taiwan and Hong Kong were collaborating in business ventures responsible for a huge flow of investments into China. Today it is widely assumed that Chinese capitalists in the region will have an enormous impact on the global economy in the 21st century. Studies allege that they run extensive ethnically based business networks that add hugely to their collective muscle. Some say that they will emerge even stronger from the Asian financial crisis that occurred in 1997 and are destined to become a

global economic force. Existing explanations for the remarkable success of businesses in South-East Asia owned and managed by people of ethnic Chinese origin have emphasised cultural factors, arguing that there are special models of Chinese business, Chinese capital and Chinese entrepreneurship, and that business networks based on shared identities have been vital in developing the corporate base for such businesses. This book argues that the position is in fact much more complex, varying in the different countries of South-East Asia and changing over time. It presents empirical findings from various South-East Asian countries - Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, The Philippines and Indonesia - and demonstrates that Chinese businessmen employ a variety of strategies in the networking, entrepreneurship and organisational and form development.

Edited by: Terence E. Gomez, Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 570g
ISBN: 9780700714155
ISBN 10: 0700714154
Pages: 220
Publication Date: 09 March 2001
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Professional and scholarly , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Chinese Business Research in Southeast Asia, Edmund Terence Gomez, Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao; Chapter 1 Singapore, Chan Kwok Bun, Ng Beoy Kui; Chapter 2 Malaysia, Edmund Terence Gomez, Loh Wei Leng, Lee Kam Hing; Chapter 3 Thailand, Jamie Mackie; Chapter 4 The Philippines, Theresa Chong Carino; Chapter 5 Indonesia, Diao Ai Lien, Mely Tan; Chapter 6 Taiwanese Business in Southeast Asia, I-Chun Kung;

Edmund Terence Gomez, Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao,

Reviews for Chinese Business in Southeast Asia: Contesting Cultural Explanations, Researching Entrepreneurship

' [This book] should be included in the essential reading list for those interested in Chinese business in Southeast Asia.' - ASEAN Economic Bulletin Overall, thir volume represents another important effort at trying to understand the state of Chinese business communities in Southeast Asia in the post-independence period. There papers are a useful addition to the growing body of literature that reassesses the role that cultural values and shared ethnicity play in perpetuating Chinese business successes in Southeast Asia in the present and recent past. -China Review International