Tai-Shang: A Different Kind of Ethnic Chinese Business in Southeast Asia
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Social Transformations in Chinese Societies, 3, 133-151
Journal
Chinese Capitalisms
Pages
156-175
Date Issued
2008
Date
2008
Author(s)
Hsiao, Hsin-Huang Michael
Kung, I-Chun
Wang, H. Z.
Abstract
Taiwanese transnational capital emerged in the mid-1980s, and its importance is now widely recognized by Taiwanese scholars in various disciplines. There has been an increasing interest in investigating the nature of this newly emerging transnational capital, which is considered to be different from the Western or Japanese forms. Studies of Taiwanese businesses (taishang) in Southeast Asia have concentrated on the domains of overseas investment patterns (T. J. Chen 1994, 1998; Y. C. Chen 1997; Lin 2002), industrial relations (Chan and Wang 2005; Kung 2002; Wang 2002), and ethnic relations and overseas Chinese networks (Hsiao and Kung 1998; Tseng 1999). Some scholars have noted that, to taishang, Southeast Asia is not only a geographical area, but also a cultural entity, and thus their investment behavior as a whole is embedded in the social contexts of the region. As latecomers to transnational capital in Southeast Asia, taishang demonstrate some distinguishing features (see also Shu 2000, 2001).
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