Economic Success of Chinese Merchants in Southeast Asia

Identity, Ethnic Cooperation and Conflict
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-662-56864-4
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 371 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 587 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Landa, Janet Tai

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- Empirical Studies of Chinese Mutual Aid (Pang ?) 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.