Xiaoying Qi

Entrepreneurs in Contemporary China

Wealth, Connections, and Crisis

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Produktbeschreibung

"By drawing on extensive interviews with business founders and CEOs this book explores the complexities and dynamics of business and social relations responsible for present-day China's economic vibrancy. It makes an original contribution both through its empirical richness and theoretical innovations on trust, social networks, crisis and gender"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9781009316101
• ISBN-10: 1009316109
• Artikelnr.: 67979606

Autorenporträt

Xiaoying Qi an Associate Professor at the Australian Catholic University. Her first book, Globalized Knowledge Flows and Chinese Social Theory (2013), was awarded the Raewyn Connell Prize Special Commendation of The Australian Sociological Association. Qi's most recent book, Remaking Families in Contemporary China (2021), won the Stephen Crook Memorial Prize of The Australian Sociological Association in 2022.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: An Invention of Entrepreneurs in Marketized China
1. E-Commerce: Social Embeddedness Through and Behind the Screen
2. Making Social Networks: Agency, Norms and Costs
3. Trust, Broken Trust, and Trust Renegotiated
 4. Family Business and its Management
5. Female Entrepreneurs: Doing Gender and Displaying Gender as a Strategy
6. Crisis as Opportunities: The Chinese Practice of Weiji
Conclusion: Rethinking Entrepreneurship: Trust, Networks, Crisis and Gender.