All but 2 of these stimulating and referenced papers are selected from those given at the 1996 Beijing conference of the CASS and the Nordic Institute. Drawn from different disciplines the 16 authors reassess some of the ideas and stereotypes which underline much thinking about "bamboo networks" and ethnic Chinese solidarity and/or homogeneity.
1 Trist and Its Limitations
2 Transaction Cost, Cultural Values and Chineses Business Networks
3 Networks and Guanxi
4 Singaporean Chinese Doing Business in China
5 Creadentialism Versus Entrepreneurism
6 Networks and Their uses in the Taiwanese Society
7 Hui
8 Chinese Business Enterprise as Inter-family Partnership
9 Political Structures and Chinese Business Connection in the Malay world
10 The Chinese Networks in Sountheast
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