Chinese Entrepreneurship and Asian Business Networks

<p>The degree to which the extensive business networks of ethnic Chinese in Asia succeed because of ethnic characteristics or simply because of the sound application of good business practice is a key question of great current concern to those interested in business management and economic development in Asia. This book brings together a range of leading experts who present original new research findings and important new thinking on this vital subject. Based on rich empirical research data and a multidisciplinary explanatory framework this book assesses the role characteristics and challenges of Chinese entrepreneurship and business networks in various East and Southeast Asian countries: the People's Republic of China Vietnam Malaysia Singapore Indonesia and Australia.</p> <p><em>Chinese Entrepreneurship and Asian Business Networks</em> demonstrates that Chinese network capitalism is contingent upon for example time place institutional frameworks and that explanatory approaches of Chinese economic behaviour which stress culture and ethnicity are too simplistic.</p>