Economic Success of Chinese Merchants in Southeast Asia

Name: Economic Success of Chinese Merchants in Southeast Asia
Author: Janet Tai Landa

Identity, Ethnic Cooperation and Conflict

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Gebonden, 349 blz. | Engels

Springer Berlin Heidelberg | 2014e druk, 2016

ISBN13: 9783642540189

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This book provides an original analysis of the economic success of Overseas Chinese merchants in Southeast Asia: The ethnically homogeneous group of Chinese middlemen is an informal, low-cost organization for the provision of club goods, e.g. contract enforcement, that are essential to merchants’ success. The author’s theory - and various extensions, with emphasis on kinship and other trust relationships - draws on economics and the other social sciences, and beyond to evolutionary biology. Empirical material from her fieldwork forms the basis for developing her unique, integrative and transdisciplinary theoretical framework, with important policy implications for understanding ethnic conflict in multiethnic societies where minority groups dominate merchant roles.

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ISBN13:9783642540189

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:gebonden

Aantal pagina's:349

Uitgever:Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Druk:2014

Hoofdrubriek:Economie

Inhoudsopgave

Introduction.- Empirical Studies of Chinese Mutual Aid (Pang 帮) and Economic Organizations in Singapore And Malaysia.- The Ethnically Homogeneous Middleman Group and Chinese Family Firms: Theoretical Approaches.- Economic Success of Overseas Chinese Merchants in Southeast Asia: Cooperation, Competition, and Conflict.