Capital and knowledge in Asia : changing power relations

edited by Heidi Dahles and Otto van den Muijzenberg

This book focuses on the key role played by producer services in shaping new business areas and new patterns for social mobility, and their interdependence with the State and the emergence and flourishing of the new professions

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Year of publication:	2003
Other Persons:	Dahles, Heidi (contributor) ; Muijzenberg, Otto Diederik van den (contributor)
Publisher:	London : RoutledgeCurzon
Subject:	Asien \| Asia \| Dienstleistungssektor \| Service industry \| Unternehmen \| Enterprise
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de]

Extent:	Online-Ressource (xviii, 239 p)
Series:	RoutledgeCurzon studies in the growth economies of Asia ; 46 Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia Ser
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-235) and index Cover; Capital and Knowledge in Asia; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Producer services, social mobility and the state in Asia: Lessons from Western economies; PART I The new economy: boosting new people or bolstering old ties?; 2 Networking for domination: The interconnectivity among business and government actors in the information technology industry of Hong Kong; 3 The status of non-banking financial companies in India: A case study from Ahmedabad, Gujarat 4 Cyber gurus and social mobility in India's 'Silicon Valley'5 Restructuring capitalist power in the Philippines: Elite consolidation and upward mobility in producer services; 6 Land investors during the property boom of the 1990s and the elite of Metro Cebu; Part II Engineering a new middle class: Singapore and Malaysia; 7 Brokering change, changing brokers: The Chinese business elite and decolonization politics in Singapore, 1945-65; 8 Social networks and modern management style: Pawnbroking business in Singapore; 9 Establishing an enduring business: The Great Eastern-OCBC group 10 Local merchant shipping companies in Malaysia: Expansion and diversificationPart III Producer services in transitional economies; 11 New entrepreneurs in reform China: Economic growth and social change in Taiyuan, Shanxi; 12 Business services in transitional economies: The case of Russia; 13 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:	0-203-71178-5 ; 0-415-30417-2 ; 978-0-415-30417-7
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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