Business Networks in East Asian Capitalisms: Enduring Trends, Emerging Patterns

by Jane Nolan, Chris Rowley, Malcolm Warner

Overview

Business Networks in East Asian Capitalisms: Enduring Trends, Emerging Patterns builds on the foundational studies conducted in the 1990s by gathering contemporary empirical and theoretical chapters which explore these themes in a comparative perspective.

The book includes contributions from authors working on the relationship between personal and business networks in countries including China, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand.

Authors emphasize enduring trends in social and business networks and/or track new emerging patterns, both within East Asian nations or between East Asia and other regions such as Europe, Africa, and the Americas.

• Provides contemporary, up-to-date empirical material and theoretical interpretation, charting the influence of more recent globalizing trends and institutional change in the region
• Includes studies of networks within PRC, between PRC and other regions, and in Chinese communities
• Offers studies centered on Korean, Japanese, and South East Asian Networks
• Includes a geographical scope that will be broader than other books, aiming to include studies of newly developing economies in South East Asia that share a common cultural heritage (e.g Vietnam)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780081006559
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	09/16/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	382
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Jane Nolan was formerly a Senior Research Fellow at Magdalene College Cambridge and a lecturer at the University of Leicester. She has research interests in international human resource management, gender and diversity management, and globalization and institutional change. Her research has been funded by the ESRC and the Nuffield Foundation.
Professor Chris Rowley has affiliations at IHCR, Korea University, Korea and IBAS, Griffith University, Australia as well as IAPS, Nottingham University, UK and Cass Business School, City University, London, UK and has been a Korea Foundation Research Fellow. He is Editor of the journals Asia Pacific Business Review and Journal of Chinese Human Resource Management and also Series Editor of the Working in Asia and Asian Studies book series. He has given a range of talks and lectures to universities and companies internationally, with research and consultancy experience with unions, business and government. He has published widely in the area of Human Resource Management and Asian business, with over 500 articles, books and chapters and practitioner pieces as well as being interviewed and quoted in a range of practitioner reports and magazines, radio and newspapers globally.
Malcolm Warner is a Professor and Fellow Emeritus, Wolfson College, Cambridge and Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He has been the Editor-in-Chief, of the International Encyclopedia of Business and Management [IEBM],and the author/editor of many books and articles on Asia. He is currently Co-Editor of the Asia Pacific Business Review.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Key Debates in Business Networks in East Asian Capitalisms: An Introduction

Chapter 2: The Historical Development of East Asian Business Networks: Trade, Colonialism, and the State

Part 1: Business Networks in China and Hong Kong

Chapter 3: Bank of China International in Hong Kong: Social Status and Network Access

Chapter 4: Business to Government Networks in Resource Acquisition: The Case of Chinese Private Enterprises

Chapter 5: Business Networks and the Emergence of Guanxi Capitalism in China: The Role of the ‘Invisible Hand’

Chapter 6: The Networking Strategies of the Jebsens and Chinese Merchants in the Late 19th and the Early 20th Centuries

Part 2: Business Networks in Japan and Korea

Chapter 7: Business Networks in Japan: The Impact of Exposure to Overseas Markets

Chapter 8: Can Informal Networks Positively Influence Economic Growth and Development? The Case of South Korean Yongo Networks

Part 3: Business Networks in South East Asia

Chapter 9: Chinese Capitalisms in Southeast Asia: Diverging Institutional Legacies of Southeast Asian Chinese Business Communities

Chapter 10: Business Networks in Thailand: Import Substitution, Export Oriented, and Expansion in AEC

Chapter 11: Business Networks and Varieties of Capitalism in Thailand: Adding the Context of History, Political Structures, and Social and Cultural Values

Chapter 12: Social Capital and the Social Context of Business Networks: The Case of Thailand

Chapter 13: Business Networks in Myanmar: Kjei zu, Corrosion and Reform

Chapter 14: The Network-Based Economy in Vietnam: Business Networks in Context and Over Time

Chapter 15: Conclusion: Making Sense of Enduring Trends and Emerging Patterns in Business Networks in East Asian Capitalisms