Measuring Team Performance

GLORIA E. BADER is president and CEO of Richard Chang Associates, Inc., a consulting and publishing firm whose clients include Toshiba, Marriot, Citibank, Fidelity Investments, Nabisco, and McDonald's. He currently serves as chair of the board for the American Society for Training and Development. He lives near Irvine, California.

• List of Figures, Maps and Tables PrefaceIntroduction: Negotiating Geographical Knowledges: Region of ReformRepresenting South China: Special Zone 'Experiment' Meets 'Miracle' DevelopmentArea Studies Debates: China's 'Response to the West'Restructuring Area StudiesChina Area Studies and the 'Macroregion'Transboundary Cultural EconomyRegion, Place / Space, and Scale: Scaling Social ProcessesContextual GeographicsRegion and Representations: Geographical Representations: Northern VantageCoastal ImaginariesComing into DifferenceRewriting South China: Bai YueKingdom of ChuRegion as Greater China: Myth of 'Ungrounded Empire'Transboundary Economies and the Territorial TrapHistory of the North and the SouthRegional ThinkingMaritime Frontier / Mercantile Region: Region and Nature-Society RelationsFringe of EmpireEarly Coastal Settlement: Cities of MinQuanzhou and NingboThe Deltas and Land ReclamationMercantile Region: The Zheng He VoyagesZheng He and TianhouThe Amoy NetworkThe Junk TradeOpen Ports and the Treaty System: 'Semicolonialism': The Treaty SettlementsOpium for TeaThe Open Ports: Foreign SettlementThe Spirit of MinCommercial Organization:Ningbo: The Pivotal PortXiamen: Remittance EconomiesInfrastructural Development: Rebuilding XiamenMercantile Society and Mercantile CitiesRevolution and Diaspora: The Southern Revolutionary Axis: From Guangzhou to ShanghaiRevolution and the Overseas ChineseSoutheast Asian Chinese CommunitiesMalaysia and the National Culture DebatesMelaka: The Bukit China Movement:Rise of a Social MovementRegion as HomelandNegotiating Absolute SpaceThe Social Construction of PlaceConstructing the NationscapePlace and National CultureGendered Industrialization:Who Cares?: Regional EconomyEngendering Industrialization: Male Bias in the Development ProcessGendered Reform Policies: Rural Reform and the Feminization of the Agricultural Labor ForceThe Export-Oriented Industrialization RegimeThe New Services Sector: ProstitutionRedirectionsZone Fever:The Proliferation of Special Development Zones: 'Model' DevelopmentThe Land Conversion MoratoriumRapid Development and the 'Arable Land Problem': Policy Shifts and Arable Land LossThe Contradictions: Administrative Hierarchy ContradictionsLand Monitoring ContradictionsRural-Urban ContradictionsReal Estate Fever and Financial CollapseUrban Triumphant: 1997 and the Hong Kong Handover:One Country, All Kinds of SystemsGeographies of Globalization: CosmopoliticsProperty Development in Hong KongExhibitionary ComplexNew Environmental MovementsRebuilding ShanghaiNew Cosmopolitanisms?Globalizing CitiesEpilogue:.Region and GlobalizationRegion, State and IdentityIndex