Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction: The Overseas Chinese as an Economic Culture -- The Spirit of Capitalism -- A Spirit of Chinese Capitalism? -- Chapter 2. The Sojourners -- Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore -- Indonesia -- The Philippines -- Malaysia -- Thailand -- The Nanyang -- Chapter 3. The Psycho-Social Legacy of China -- Fundamental Beliefs and Values -- Social Structures -- Relationship Rules -- Rules for Action -- Forms of Cognition -- Chapter 4. Seeing Oneself -- Nature of the Data -- Perceptions Surrounding the Self
Chapter 5. Life in a Networked SocietyChapter 6. The Institutional Legacy of China -- The Historical Progress of Chinese Business -- The Origins of Defensiveness and Insecurity -- The Anatomy of Paternalism -- The Endurance of Personalism -- Chapter 7. The Chinese Family Business -- The Environment of Business -- The Firm�s Internal Structure -- Dilemmas of Growth and/or Stability -- Chapter 8. Society at Large -- Vertical Order -- Pragmatic Cooperation -- Chapter 9. Sources of Efficiency and of Failure -- Vertical Cooperation -- Horizontal Cooperation
ControlAdaptiveness -- Chapter 10. The Significance of the Overseas Chinese -- The Overseas Chinese and Western Business -- The Overseas Chinese and China -- Implications for Organization and Management Theory -- Economic Development and the Role of Culture -- Appendix. Methodology for the Study -- References -- Index
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