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Business Networks in East Asian Capitalisms
Enduring Trends, Emerging Patterns

Users will find this informative book on business networks in East Asia to be a great synthesis of foundational studies conducted in the 1990s, including both contemporary empirical and theoretical chapters that explore these themes in a comparative perspective

Jane Nolan (Author), Chris Rowley (Author), Malcolm Warner (Author)

9780081006399, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 13 September 2016

382 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.6 cm, 0.53 kg

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.

1: Key Debates in Business Networks in East Asian Capitalisms: An Introduction 2: The Historical Development of East Asian Business Networks: Trade, Colonialism, and the State

Part 1: Business Networks in China and Hong Kong 3: Bank of China International in Hong Kong: Social Status and Network Access 4: Business to Government Networks in Resource Acquisition: The Case of Chinese Private Enterprises 5: Business Networks and the Emergence of Guanxi Capitalism in China: The Role of the ‘Invisible Hand’ 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 7: Business Networks in Japan: The Impact of Exposure to Overseas Markets 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 9: Chinese Capitalisms in Southeast Asia: Diverging Institutional Legacies of Southeast Asian Chinese Business Communities 10: Business Networks in Thailand: Import Substitution, Export Oriented, and Expansion in AEC 11: Business Networks and Varieties of Capitalism in Thailand: Adding the Context of History, Political Structures, and Social and Cultural Values 12: Social Capital and the Social Context of Business Networks: The Case of Thailand 13: Business Networks in Myanmar: Kjei zu, Corrosion and Reform 14: The Network-Based Economy in Vietnam: Business Networks in Context and Over Time 15: Conclusion: Making Sense of Enduring Trends and Emerging Patterns in Business Networks in East Asian Capitalisms

Subject Areas: Economics, finance, business & management [K]

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