Market Cultures - Society and Morality in the New Asian Capitalisms

Examining the spectacular growth of capitalist enterprise among overseas Chinese and South-East Asians, this volume does so, not in terms of formal models and faceless abstractions, but in the light of the institutions through which local people give meaning and moral value to business enterprise.

List of contents

Introduction -- Chinese Capitalisms and Cultural Pluralism -- Culture and Organization in Taiwan’s Market Economy -- Divided Market Cultures in China -- Getting Rich Is Not So Glorious -- Part Two Indigenes and Chinese in Southeast Asia -- Business Success Among Southeast Asian Chinese -- Constituting Capitalist Culture -- The “Great Transformation” Among Negeri Sembilan Malays, with Particular Reference to Chinese and Minangkabau -- Southeast Asian Capitalisms -- Women Traders in Javanese Marketplaces -- Markets and Justice for Muslim Indonesians -- Contingent Moralities -- State Stigma, Family Prestige, and the Development of Commerce in the Red River Delta of Vietnam -- Engendered Entrepreneurship

About the author

Robert Hefner

Summary

Examining the spectacular growth of capitalist enterprise among overseas Chinese and South-East Asians, this volume does so, not in terms of formal models and faceless abstractions, but in the light of the institutions through which local people give meaning and moral value to business enterprise.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Hefner, Robert W Hefner, Robert W. Hefner
• Assisted by: Editor (Editor), Editors (Editor), Robert Hefner (Editor), Robert W. Hefner (Editor)
• Publisher: Perseus Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.12.1997
• EAN: 9780813333601
• ISBN: 978-0-8133-3360-1
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; China, Cultural Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, Entrepreneurship, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, South East Asia, Political Economy, Industry & industrial studies, Industry and industrial studies, Entrepreneurship / Start-ups