Entrepreneurs in Contemporary China

Wealth, Connections, and Crisis

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

AvXiaoying Qi,Melbourne) Qi, Xiaoying (Australian Catholic University

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Entrepreneurs in Contemporary China explores emerging business practices and related phenomena in contemporary China. It examines new forms of business practices and argues that an emerging strata of private entrepreneurs has entered the economy in recent decades, an under-researched sector of Chinese society. It draws on extensive interviews with business founders and CEOs in present-day China and shows why business-related themes are important to understanding society itself, the forces that underpin social relationships more broadly, and the basis and nature of social change. In capturing the experiences of individuals and their companies amid social and economic challenges, and by uncovering innovative strategies employed by business owners, this book makes a significant contribution to the sociological as well as the business studies literature both through its empirical richness and theoretical innovation regarding considerations of trust, social networks, crisis, gender, and social exchange.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-09-07
Mått155 x 235 x 18 mm
Vikt470 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor220
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009316101

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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.

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.

'Xiaoying Qi's Entrepreneurs in Contemporary China is a masterpiece of original research about how personalized connections, among other mechanisms, matter for the rising wealthy class during China's socioeconomic transformation and political stability. This is a must-read book for students and scholars in social and management sciences.' Yanjie Bian, Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota