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Chinese Business

Rethinking Guanxi and Trust in Chinese Business Networks

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Chee-Kiong Tong

    1. Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam

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  • New approach to the understanding of Chinese business
  • Rethinking guanxi and trust in Chinese business networks
  • Impact of the rise of China on Chinese business networks
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. Rethinking Chinese Business

    • Chee Kiong Tong
    Pages 1-20

  3. Centripetal Authority, Differentiated Networks: The Social Organization of Chinese Firms in Singapore

    • Chee Kiong Tong
    Pages 21-40

  4. Guanxi Bases, Xinyong and Chinese Business Networks

    • Chee Kiong Tong, Pit Kee Yong
    Pages 41-61

  5. Personalism and Paternalism in Chinese Business

    • Chee Kiong Tong, Pit Kee Yong
    Pages 63-76

  6. Feuds and Legacies: Conflict and Inheritance in Chinese Family Business

    • Chee Kiong Tong
    Pages 77-95

  7. Rethinking Chinese Business Networks: Trust and Distrust in Chinese Business

    • Chee Kiong Tong
    Pages 97-117

  8. Singaporean Chinese Doing Business in China

    • Kwok Bun Chan, Chee Kiong Tong
    Pages 119-129

  9. The Rise of China and Its Implications

    • Chee Kiong Tong
    Pages 131-144
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The nature, institutional foundations, and issues surrounding the apparent success of Chinese business networks is examined in this book. Major concepts such as guanxi, xinyong and gangqing, exploring the nature of trust, relationships and sentiments in Chinese business networks, are re-examined. A significant amount of literature has been devoted to the study of Chinese business, and it largely falls into two broad schools: the culturalist approach, arguing for an essentialist formulation to explain success and the market approach, suggesting that there is nothing inherently unique about Chinese business. This book critiques both these approaches and argues, based on primary data collected in various countries, and with case studies of a large number of Chinese businesses, that another approach, the institutional embedded approach, provides a better explanation for the success, and failure of Chinese business and Chinese business networks.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam

    Chee-Kiong Tong

About the editor

Tong Chee Kiong is Professor of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. He is also Special Academic Advisor and Chair Professor at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) as well as the Director of the Institute of Asian Studies, UBD. Chee Kiong’s research interests focus on the Chinese in Southeast Asia, religion and religious change and Asian business networks. His recent publications include Chinese Death Rituals (2004), Rationalizing Religion: Religious Conversion, Revivalism, and Competition in Singapore (2007), and Identity and Ethnic Relations in Southeast Asia: Racializing Chineseness (2010). Chee Kiong has also published papers in the British Journal of Sociology, International Migration Review, Diaspora, Child Abuse and Neglect, International Sociology, and Journal of Asian Business.

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