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  title info:
    title: Economic Success of Chinese Merchants in Southeast Asia
    sub title: Identity, Ethnic Cooperation and Conflict
  name:
    name part: Landa, Janet Tai.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2016
    edition: 1st ed. 2016.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVI, 371 p. 37 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This book provides an original analysis of the economic success of Overseas Chinese merchants in Southeast Asia: The ethnically homogeneous group of Chinese middlemen is an informal, low-cost organization for the provision of club goods, e.g. contract enforcement, that are essential to merchants’ success. The author’s theory - and various extensions, with emphasis on kinship and other trust relationships - draws on economics and the other social sciences, and beyond to evolutionary biology. Empirical material from her fieldwork forms the basis for developing her unique, integrative and transdisciplinary theoretical framework, with important policy implications for understanding ethnic conflict in multiethnic societies where minority groups dominate merchant roles. The study of the Chinese merchants is of important and general significance for many reasons, as masterly demonstrated by this collected volume. Only recently did economists begin to appreciate the role of legal institutions in facilitating trade. Janet Landa has gone further to call our attention to the presence of social institutions, such as the ethnically homogeneous Chinese middleman group, mutual aid communities, social norms, trust, identity, and guanxi, to structure exchange relationships, without which trade and specialization would be severely impaired... In conducting her reserch on merchants, Landa also becomes a pioneer in engaging economic reserch with the rich scholarship in other social sciences and with evolutionary biology, and made them an integral part of her theoretical framework. --Ronald Coase Janet Landa is a pioneer in the application of transaction cost models to the study of ethnically-based economic networks. The present volume synthesizes a lifetime of work on Chinese middlemen. It combines the analytic methods of economics with theoretically-driven ethnographic research. It shows how division of labor within ethnic communities, social capital based on trust relationships, a de…
  table of contents: Introduction -- Empirical Studies of Chinese Mutual Aid (Pang 帮) and Economic Organizations in Singapore And Malaysia -- The Ethnically Homogeneous Middleman Group and Chinese Family Firms: Theoretical Approaches -- Economic Success of Overseas Chinese Merchants in Southeast Asia: Cooperation, Competition, and Conflict.
  note: by Janet Tai Landa.
  subject:
    topic: Regional economics
  subject:
    topic: Spatial economics
  subject:
    topic: Economics
  subject:
    topic: Regional/Spatial Science
  classification: HT388
  classification: HD28-9999
  classification: 338.9
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      title: Springer eBooks
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