The Globalisation of Chinese Business Firms - by H Yeung & K Olds (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Chinese business firms and their networks of personal and business relationships, are becoming increasingly important players in the global economy. This book examines the global and regional operations of Chinese business firms and considers their implications for the management and organisation of these firms, aided by specific case studies. Written by leading researchers in this field, The Globalisation of Chinese Business Firms is a valuable and timely contribution to the study of Asian business systems.

Review Quotes

'...a book on the operation of overseas Chinese business firms is long overdue and this collection goes some way along the road of identifying the distinctive feature that lie behind the success of overseas Chinese business enterprises...The collection is a welcome and extremely useful contribution to an important new research area in economic geography - that of the identification and conceptualisation of cultural, historical and organisational differences in the ways in which capitalism operates in different parts of the world [Crouch and Streeck, 1997: 1-17].' - John R. Bryson, The University of Birmingham, The Service Industries Journal

About the Author

GARY G.HAMILTON Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Washington at Seattle HONG LUI Assistant professor in the Department of Chinese Studies and Assistant Director of the Centre for Research in Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore KATHARYNE MITCHELL Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle KRIS OLDS Lecturer in the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore GORDON REDDING Affiliate Professor of Asian Business at the Euro-Asia Centre, INSEAD ALAN SMART Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Calgary JOSEPHINE SMART Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Calgary CHIA-ZHI TAN Web Specialist in Temasek Polytechnic, managing the Corporate Internet and Intranet DANIEL VAN DEN BULCKE Professor of International Management and Development, University of Antwerp (RUCA) in Belgium SIA-LUN WONG Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong HENRY WAI-CHUNG YEUNG Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore YU ZHOU Assistant Professor in the Department of Geology and Geography, Vassar College HAIYAN ZHANG Research Assistant at the University of Antwerp - RUCA