Commodifying Communism - Business, Trust, and Politics in a Chinese City

Klappentext An examination of how private business is conducted through personal ties in China's market economy. Zusammenfassung An ethnographic study of the role of personal ties between private entrepreneurs and local officials in China's emerging market economy! this book is based upon fieldwork in Xiamen City! Fujian! one of China's five special economic zones. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Orientation of the study; 2. Institutional commodification: concepts and categories of analysts; Part I. Instituted Processes of Commercial Clientelism: 3. The structure of commercial opportunity of Xiamen; 4. Symbiotic transactions between private firms and public units; 5. Enhancing expectations: the social organization of contracts; 6. Entrepreneurial paths and capital: personal attributes as competitive advantage; Part II. Economic and Political Outcomes: 7. Comparing economic performance in China and Eastern Europe; 8. The transformation of political order; 9. Epilogue: evolutionary trends in the 1990s.

Product details

• Authors: David L. Wank, David L. (Sophia University Wank
• Assisted by: Mark Granovetter (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.07.2001
• EAN: 9780521798419
• ISBN: 978-0-521-79841-9
• No. of pages: 314
• Series: Structural Analysis in the Soc; Structural Analysis in the Soc
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories