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This book serves as a textbook for courses on Asian studies with a focus on ethnic Chinese entrepreneurs and business management in Asia. It gives a comprehensive Asian perspective on the organizational peculiarities and changing business practices of ethnic Chinese businesses and their leaders who continue to form the backbone of Asia's dynamic economies. The book features selected chapters written by reputable scholars on Chinese business, covering diverse and yet closely related topics such as the role of ethnic identity, trust, guanxi, Chineseness, leadership, change management, learning and knowledge management in organizations owned and managed by ethnic Chinese.
List of contents
Introduction (Thomas Menkhoff, Chay Yue Wah, Hans-Dieter Evers and Hoon Chang Yau); Ethnic Chinese as Trading Minority: Implications for Business and Society: The Sea as Paddy - The Making of Fujian as Transnational Place (Jessica Chong); Trade Routes, Trust and Tactics: Chinese Traders in Singapore (Thomas Menkhoff); What Chinese Am I? The Use of Heritage for Economic Imperatives in Developmental State Singapore (Daphnee Lee); Malaysian Chinese Business: Ethnicity and Knowledge Management (Chin Yee Whah); Evolving Chineseness, Ethnicity and Business: The Making of the Ethnic Chinese as a Market-Dominant Minority in Indonesia (Hoon Chang Yau); Generational Change in Chinese Indonesian SMEs (Juliette Koning); Chinese Guanxi, Chineseness and Changing Business Practices: Chinese Business Networks - A Hypothetical Dialogue (Thomas Menkhoff); Trading Networks of Chinese Entrepreneurs in Singapore (Thomas Menkhoff and Chalmers Labig); Managing Change in Asian Business - A Comparison Between Chinese-educated and English-educated Chinese Entrepreneurs in Singapore (Thomas Menkhoff, Ulrike Badibanga and Chay Yue Wah); Managing Change in Chinese Business - Challenges Ahead: Continuity and Change in Corporate Governance Among Ethnic Chinese Family Firms in Singapore (Tsui-Auch, Lai Si and Chow Yi Lin, Dawn); Improving Small Firm Performance Through Collaborative Change Management and Outside Learning: Trends in Singapore (Thomas Menkhoff and Chay Yue Wah); Brand Management in Chinese Family Business: The Case of Eu Yang San (Thomas Menkhoff and Willem Smit); Leadership, Knowledge Management and Learning in Chinese Business: Mindful Leadership - Asian Perspectives (Thomas Menkhoff, Jochen Reb, Hans-Dieter Evers, Chay Yue Wah, Charles Chow and Lee Cher Leng); Exploring Lee Kong Chian's Knowledge Leadership Style in Nam Aik Company (Shiyan Dai and Guocai Zhang); The Management of Organizational Learning in Chinese Business - Case Studies of Asian SMEs (Thomas Menkhoff); Case Studies: Strategic Entrepreneurship in Emerging Market Multinationals: Marco Polo Marine (Marleen Dieleman and Lee Yue-Jer); The Ciputra Group: Shaping the City in Asia (Marleen Dieleman); The Salim Group: The Art of Strategic Flexibility (Marleen Dieleman); Chinese Business as Learning Organization: The Case of Qian Hu Corporation Limited (Thomas Menkhoff); Asian Business in Local Contexts: Informal Banking and Early International Entrepreneurs: The Case of the Chettiars (Jayarani Tan and Wee-Liang Tan); The Internationalisation Chinese Firms - Evidence From the People's Republic of China (Hinrich Voss); Chinese and Malay Conceptions of Space and the Urbanisation of Malaysia (Hans-Dieter Evers).
