Business Networks in East Asian Capitalisms

Business Networks in East Asian Capitalisms: Enduring Trends, Emerging Patterns builds on the foundational studies conducted in the 1990s by gathering contemporary empirical and theoretical chapters which explore these themes in a comparative perspective.

The book includes contributions from authors working on the relationship between personal and business networks in countries including China, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand.

Authors emphasize enduring trends in social and business networks and/or track new emerging patterns, both within East Asian nations or between East Asia and other regions such as Europe, Africa, and the Americas.

• Provides contemporary, up-to-date empirical material and theoretical interpretation, charting the influence of more recent globalizing trends and institutional change in the region
• Includes studies of networks within PRC, between PRC and other regions, and in Chinese communities
• Offers studies centered on Korean, Japanese, and South East Asian Networks
• Includes a geographical scope that will be broader than other books, aiming to include studies of newly developing economies in South East Asia that share a common cultural heritage (e.g Vietnam)

Post-graduate students, researchers and university lecturers with interests in international business and development in East and South East Asia. Moreover, the theoretical focus of the book on networks means that it should also appeal to academic readers with interests in economic sociology and globalization. Given the significance of East Asia in the global economic order, the book will also have the potential to tap a broader general readership including managers working in the region and specialist policy advisors

• Contributor Biographies
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Endorsements
• Chapter 1: Key Debates in Business Networks in East Asian Capitalisms: An Introduction
  • Abstract
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Defining Business Networks
  • 1.3 Defining East Asian Capitalisms
  • 1.4 Structure of the Book and Contributions to the Volume
  • 1.5 Conclusions
• Chapter 2: The Historical Development of East Asian Business Networks: Trade, Colonialism, and the State
  • Abstract
  • 2.1 History, Nation States, and the International Economy
  • 2.2 Business Networks and the International Economy: 1820–1950
  • 2.3 Asian Business Networks: 1820–1950
  • 2.4 The New International Economic Order: 1950–80
  • 2.5 Globalization, the State, and Business Networks
• Part 1: Business Networks in China and Hong Kong
  • Chapter 3: Bank of China International in Hong Kong: Social Status and Network Access
    • Abstract
    • 3.1 Impact of Financial Reform on the Social Status of Banks
    • 3.2 Theoretical Lens on Social Status and Networks
    • 3.3 Chief Executive Officers of BOCI
    • 3.4 CEOs’ Social Status in the CCP
    • 3.5 Conclusions
  • Chapter 4: Business to Government Networks in Resource Acquisition: The Case of Chinese Private Enterprises
    • Abstract
    • 4.1 Introduction
    • 4.2 Literature Review
    • 4.3 Method and Data
    • 4.4 Results and Discussion
    • 4.5 Conclusion
    • Appendix: List of Interviewees Cited in Text
  • Chapter 5: Business Networks and the Emergence of Guanxi Capitalism in China: The Role of the ‘Invisible Hand’
    • Abstract
    • 5.1 Introduction
    • 5.2 Chinese Business History
    • 5.3 Attitudes Toward Business
    • 5.4 Confucian Ethics
    • 5.5 Five Classified Relationships (Wulun)
    • 5.6 Conceptualisation of Guanxi
    • 5.7 Differential Mode of Association (Chaxugeju)
    • 5.8 The Future Role of Guanxi in Business
    • 5.9 Central Managed Capitalism
    • 5.10 Network of Guanxi Circles
    • 5.11 Conceptual Framework: Guanxi Capitalism Structure
    • 5.12 Conclusion
    • Appendix
  • Chapter 6: The Networking Strategies of the Jebsens and Chinese Merchants in the Late 19th and the Early 20th Centuries
    • Abstract
    • 6.1 Introduction
    • 6.2 Formal and Informal Networks: Mechanisms and Limits
    • 6.3 Informal Networks: The Jebsens
    • 6.4 Institutionalising Semiformal Associations of Chinese Merchants
    • 6.5 Conclusion
• Part 2: Business Networks in Japan and Korea
  • Chapter 7: Business Networks in Japan: The Impact of Exposure to Overseas Markets
    • Abstract
    • 7.1 Introduction
    • 7.2 Contexts: The Development of Japanese Capitalism
    • 7.3 The Role of Institutions
    • 7.4 Business Networks in Japan: Enduring Trends
    • 7.5 Business Networks in Japan: Emerging Patterns
    • 7.6 Conclusions: Implications for Future Research
  • Chapter 8: Can Informal Networks Positively Influence Economic Growth and Development? The Case of South Korean Yongo Networks
    • Abstract
    • 8.1 Introduction
    • 8.2 Theoretical Anchorage
    • 8.3 Discussion
    • 8.4 Conclusion
• Part 3: Business Networks in South East Asia
  • Chapter 9: Chinese Capitalisms in Southeast Asia: Diverging Institutional Legacies of Southeast Asian Chinese Business Communities
    • Abstract
    • 9.1 Introduction
    • 9.2 An Historical Institutional Approach to Ethnic Chinese Businesses
    • 9.3 Ethnic Chinese Entrepreneurs Venturing into China
    • 9.4 Chinese Legacies: A Comparative Analysis
    • 9.5 Conclusions
  • Chapter 10: Business Networks in Thailand: Import Substitution, Export Oriented, and Expansion in AEC
    • Abstract
    • Acknowledgement
    • 10.1 Introduction
    • 10.2 Literature Review
    • 10.3 Evolution of Business Networks in Thailand
    • 10.4 Government Investment Policy and Other Relevant Business Laws
    • 10.5 Anticorruption Movement
    • 10.6 Conclusion
  • Chapter 11: Business Networks and Varieties of Capitalism in Thailand: Adding the Context of History, Political Structures, and Social and Cultural Values
    • Abstract
    • 11.1 Introduction
    • 11.2 Locating and Analyzing VOC
    • 11.3 VOC Framework
    • 11.4 Criticisms of VOC
    • 11.5 Application of the Framework
    • 11.6 Discussion
    • 11.7 Conclusion
  • Chapter 12: Social Capital and the Social Context of Business Networks: The Case of Thailand
    • Abstract
    • 12.1 Introduction
    • 12.2 Social Capital
    • 12.3 Thailand’s Social Context for the Creation, Utilisation and Maintenance of Social Capital
    • 12.4 Thailand’s Social Capital: Where to Now?
    • 12.5 Conclusion
  • Chapter 13: Business Networks in Myanmar: Kjei zu, Corrosion and Reform
    • Abstract
    • 13.1 Introduction
    • 13.2 Understanding Business Networks in Myanmar
    • 13.3 Organizational Implications: From the Inside
    • 13.4 Interorganizational Illustrations
    • 13.5 Emerging Change
  • Chapter 14: The Network-Based Economy in Vietnam: Business Networks in Context and Over Time
    • Abstract
    • 14.1 Introduction
    • 14.2 Political-Economic Background
    • 14.3 Socio-Cultural Background
    • 14.4 Crony Capitalism or Network-Based Economy
    • 14.5 Corruption and Network-Based Economy
    • 14.6 Conclusion
  • Chapter 15: Conclusion: Making Sense of Enduring Trends and Emerging Patterns in Business Networks in East Asian Capitalisms
    • Abstract
    • 15.1 Social Capital
    • 15.2 Culture
    • 15.3 Informality
    • 15.4 Multiplexity
    • 15.5 Historically Embedded Power Relations and the Role of International Markets
    • 15.6 Conclusions: Enduring Trends and Emerging Patterns
• Index