This volume, first published in 1995, looks at the development of Chinese business and management practices across Asia from the late nineteenth century. Experts examine how familism and informal networks have contributed to Chinese entrepreneurial success. They demonstrate how effective these factors have been in overcoming restrictive state policies: through alliances with ethnic and international traders and connections between financial networks in Hong Kong, South East Asia, China and Australia. An institutional model of analysis is developed to determine the efficacy of Chinese business practices and structures. The relationship between culture and environment is examined as well as how modern institutions are embedded not only in culture but also in history and economics.
1. Introduction: Chinese Business in an Institutional and Historical
Perspective Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown
2. Securing Trust and Stability:
Chinese Finance in the Late Nineteenth Century Andrea McElderry
3.
Perspectives on the Development of Accounting and Chinas Economic
Transformation from the Late Ming to the Early Republic Robert Gardella
4.
The Control of Equity in Chinese Firms within the Modern Sector from the Late
Qing to the Early Republic David Faure
5. The Origins and Early Years of the
Wing On Company Group in Australia, Fiji, Hong Kong and Shanghai:
Organisation and Strategy of a New Enterprise Wellington K.K. Chan
6.
Competition Among Brothers: The Kin Tye Lung Company and its Associate
Companies Choi Chi-Cheung
7. Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurship and the
Chinese State: The Case of South China, 1900-49 Leo Douw
8. Business
Networks, Cultural Values and the State in Hong Kong and Singapore Wong
Siu-Lun
9. Chinese Business Networks and Japanese Capital in South East Asia,
1880-1940: Some Preliminary Observations Peter Post
10. Sources of Ethnic
Advantage: A Comparison of Chinese and Pribumi-Managed Engineering Firms in
Indonesia Okke Braadbaart
11. Chinese Business Families in the Philippines
Since the 1890s Ellen H. Palanca
12. Chinese Family-Owned Multinationals in
the Philippines and the Internationalisation Process Daniel Van Den Bulcke
and Zhang Hai-Yan
Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown
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