Rethinking Chinese Transnational Enterprises: Cultural Affinity and Business Strategies [Hardcover]

Affinity to the Chinese culture, personalized social networks and a firm control of ownership and management have often been considered the key ingredients for the success of many diaspora Chinese transnational enterprises in South China and Southeast Asia. In view of the recent Asian crisis and the rapid changes imposed by globalization, scholars are increasingly concerned whether these family-owned Chinese transnational enterprises would survive the challenges in the new millennium.Bringing together a group of scholars and researchers from different fields and disciplines, this book documents and dissects the dynamics of Chinese transnational enterprises throughout the 20th and into the 21st century.Leo Douw is Lecturer in Modern Chinese History and Society at the University of Amsterdam and the Free University of Amsterdam, and Director of the research program on Chinese diaspora capitalism at the International Institute for Asian Studies, The Netherlands. Cen Huang is Director of International Programs and Partnerships at the University of Calgary. David Ip is Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Sociology and Archaeology at the University of Queensland.1: Introduction 1; 2: Mismatched Cultural Affinity: Industrial Relations in Overseas Chinese Enterprises in South China; 3: Receptiveness to Changing Practices in Human Resource Management: A Comparison of Mainland Chinese and Taiwanese Employees in German-Chinese Business; 4: The German Machine Tool Service  A Work Floor Case Study of a German-Based Transnational Small Enterprise in China; 5: Chineseness and Chinese Capitalism in East and Southeast Asia 1; 6: Southeast Asian Chinese Investment in Xiamen: The Li Family during the 1920s and 1930s as a Case Study; 7: Donations of Overseas Chinese to Xiamen Since 1978; 8: Southeast Asian Chinese Transnational Enterprises in China: Qiaoxiang Ties and the Zheng Family 1; 9: Doló(