Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Building Families, Building Businesses

  • Chapter
  • First Online:
Trading in Uncertainty

  • 417 Accesses

Abstract

This chapter turns the book’s focus to the Vietnamese family and the model of family businesses. While cooperatives were the main economic units during the high socialist period, the family was promoted as the core for economic organisation in the aftermath of Đổi mới, leading to a massive surge of family businesses in the early 1990s. Unlike other studies on family businesses in East and Southeast Asia that portray family businesses either as exploitative or overly harmonious, this chapter shows a more complex picture by looking at different interests within and perspectives on family businesses in Ninh Hiệp, all the while keeping in sight generational and gender relations. (108 words)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 99.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 129.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD 129.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Abrami, Regina M. 2002. Self-Making, Class Struggle and Labor Autarky: The Political Origins of Private Entrepreneurship in Vietnam and China. PhD thesis, University of California, Berkeley.

    Google Scholar 

  • Alexander, Jennifer. 1998. Women Traders in Javanese Marketplaces: Ethnicity, Gender, and the Entrepreneurial Spirit. In Market Cultures: Society and Morality in the New Asian Capitalisms, ed. Robert W. Hefner, 203–223. Boulder: Westview Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bélanger, Danièle, and Kate Pendakis. 2009. Daughters, Work and Families in Globalizing Vietnam. In Reconfiguring Families in Contemporary Vietnam, ed. Danièle Bélanger, and Magali Barbieri, 265–297. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bélanger, Danièle, and Magali Barbieri (eds.). 2009. Introduction: State, Families, and the Making of Transitions in Vietnam. In Reconfiguring Families in Contemporary Vietnam, 1–44. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bestor, Theodore C. 2004. Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World. Berkeley: University of California Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Brenner, Suzanne A. 1998. The Domestication of Desire: Women, Wealth, and Modernity in Java. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Creed, Gerald W. 2000. “Family Values” and Domestic Economies. Annual Review of Anthropology 29: 329–355.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Endres, Kirsten W. 2001. Local Dynamics of Renegotiating Ritual Space in Northern Vietnam: The Case of the Dinh. Sojourn 16 (1): 70–101.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gammeltoft, Tine. 1999. Women’s Bodies, Women’s Worries: Health and Family Planning in a Vietnamese Rural Community. Surrey: Curzon Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Greenhalgh, Susan. 1994. De-Orientalizing the Chinese Family Firm. American Ethnologist 21 (4): 746–775.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Haines, David W. 2006. The Limits of Kinship: South Vietnamese Households 1954–1975. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hamabata, Matthew M. 1990. Crested Kimono: Power and Love in the Japanese Business Family. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Haughton, Dominique, and Jonathan Haughton. 1999. Son Preference. In Health and Wealth in Vietnam: An Analysis of Household Living Standards, ed. Dominique Haughton, Jonathan Haughton, Sarah Bales, Trương Thị Kim Chuyên, and Nguyễn Nguyệt Nga, 97–199. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hsu, Carolyn L. 2007. Creating Market Socialism: How Ordinary People Are Shaping Class and Status in China. Durham: Duke University Press.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Jayakody, Rukmalie, and Vũ Tuấn Huy. 2008. Social Change and Marriage in Vietnam: From Socialist State to Market Reform. In International Family Change: Ideational Perspectives, ed. Rukmalie Jayakody, Arland Thornton, and William G. Axinn, 199–222. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kleinen, John. 1999. Facing the Future, Reviving the Past: A Study of Social Change in a Northern Vietnamese Village. Singapore: ISEAS.

    Google Scholar 

  • Leppänen, Antti. 2007. Neighborhood Shopkeepers in Contemporary South Korea: Household, Work, and Locality. PhD thesis, University of Helsinki, Helsinki.

    Google Scholar 

  • Leshkowich, Ann Marie. 2014. Essential Trade: Vietnamese Women in a Changing Marketplace. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Luong, Hy Van. 1989. Vietnamese Kinship: Structural Principles and the Socialist Transformation in Northern Vietnam. The Journal of Asian Studies 48 (04): 741–756.

    Google Scholar 

  • Malarney, Shaun K. 1996. The Limits of “State Functionalism” and the Reconstruction of Funerary Ritual in Contemporary Northern Vietnam. American Ethnologist 23 (3): 540–560.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • N.N. 2015. Chợ Ninh Hiệp – Phụ Nữ Là “Trụ Cột Kinh Tế” [Ninh Hiệp Market—Women Are the “Economic Pillars”]. http://banbuonquanaonam.blogspot.de/2015/04/cho-ninh-hiep-phu-nu-la-tru-cot-kinh-te.html. Accessed 20 April.

  • Park, Seo Young. 2011. Pace and Passion in Seoul’s Dongdaemun Market, South Korea: Time in the 24-hour City. PhD thesis, University of California, Irvine.

    Google Scholar 

  • Park, Seo Young. 2012. Stitching the Fabric of Family: Time, Work, and Intimacy in Seoul’s Tongdaemun Market. Journal of Korean Studies 17 (2): 383–406.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Redding, Gordon S. 1990. The Spirit of Chinese Capitalism. Berlin: de Gruyter.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Taylor, Philip (ed.). 2007. Modernity and Re-Enchantment: Religion in Post-Revolutionary Vietnam. Lanham: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield.

    Google Scholar 

  • UBND xã Ninh Hiệp. 2012. ‘Báo Cáo: Kết Quả Thực Hiện Công Tác Dân Số - KHHGĐ Năm 2012. Nhiệm vụ Trọ ng Tâm Năm 2013 [Report: Results].

    Google Scholar 

  • Vietnam. 2005. Civil Code. 33/2005/QH11. http://moj.gov.vn/vbpq/en/Lists/Vn%20bn%20php%20lut/View_Detail.aspx?ItemID=6595.

  • Vũ Mạnh Lợi. 1991. The Gender Division of Labor in Rural Families in the Red River Delta. In Sociological Studies on the Vietnamese Family, ed. Rita Liljeström, and Tương Lai, 149–164. Hanoi: Social Sciences Publishing House.

    Google Scholar 

  • Vũ Mạnh Lợi. 2000. Marriage, Family, and Women. In Social Development in Vietnam: A Sociological Overview in 2000, ed. Trịnh Duy Luân, 23–32. Hanoi: Social Sciences Publishing House.

    Google Scholar 

  • Weber, Max. [1930] 2001. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. London: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Werner, Jayne. 2009. Gender, Household and State in Post-Revolutionary Vietnam. London: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Whitmore, John K. 1984. Social Organization and Confucian Thought in Vietnam. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 15 (02): 296–306.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Whyte, Martin K. 1996. The Chinese Family and Economic Development: Obstacle or Engine? Economic Development and Cultural Change 45 (1): 1–30.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wisensale, Steven K. 1999. Marriage and Family Law in a Changing Vietnam. Journal of Family Issues 20 (5): 602–616.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Wisensale, Steven K. 2000. Family Policy in a Changing Vietnam. Journal of Comparative Family Studies 31 (1): 79–90.

    Google Scholar 

  • Woodside, Alexander. 1995. Central Vietnam’s Trading World in the Eighteenth Century as Seen in Lê Quý Đôn’s “Frontier Chronicles”. In Essays into Vietnamese Pasts, ed. Keith W. Taylor, and John K. Whitmore, 157–172. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Yanagisako, Sylvia J. 2000. Patriarchal Desire: Law and Sentiments of Succession in Italian Capitalist Families. In Elites: Choice, Leadership and Succession, ed. João de Pina-Cabral, and Antónia Pedroso de Lima, 53–72. Oxford: Berg.

    Google Scholar 

  • Yanagisako, Sylvia J. 2002. Producing Culture and Capital: Family Firms in Italy. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Yeung, Henry W. 2000. Limits to the Growth of Family-Owned Business? The Case of Chinese Transnational Corporations from Hong Kong. Family Business Review 13 (1): 55–70.

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Universität Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Esther Horat

Authors
  1. Esther Horat
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Esther Horat .

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2017 The Author(s)

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Horat, E. (2017). Building Families, Building Businesses. In: Trading in Uncertainty. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55648-2_4

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55648-2_4

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-319-55647-5

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-319-55648-2

  • eBook Packages: Economics and FinanceEconomics and Finance (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation