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  • Ethnic Chinese enterprises and the embeddedness of failure

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    Dahles, Heidi
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    Schnetzinger, Heidi
    Year published
    2010
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    Abstract
    Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to aim at assessing the impacts of the embedded nature of ethnic Chinese businesses on the management of business failure in China ventures. Design/methodology/approach - Upon reviewing the key literature on ethnic Chinese transnational business ventures and, in particular, the concept of embeddedness, the paper proceeds with a description of the data based on ethnographic research among ethnic Chinese entrepreneurs in both Singapore and Malaysia and a brief portrayal of the development of their investments in China since the 1980s. In subsequent sections the empirical findings are ...
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    Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to aim at assessing the impacts of the embedded nature of ethnic Chinese businesses on the management of business failure in China ventures. Design/methodology/approach - Upon reviewing the key literature on ethnic Chinese transnational business ventures and, in particular, the concept of embeddedness, the paper proceeds with a description of the data based on ethnographic research among ethnic Chinese entrepreneurs in both Singapore and Malaysia and a brief portrayal of the development of their investments in China since the 1980s. In subsequent sections the empirical findings are first presented and then analyzed. The conclusions reflect on the changing nature of the embeddedness of the ethnic Chinese in diverse but shared legacies. Findings - The experience of business failure in China contributes to a reorientation among the ethnic Chinese towards both their national communities and each other - and finally affects their transnational business strategies. This process of re-embedding identity is intertwined with the diverging ethnic politics of the Singaporean and Malaysian nation states and results in the redefinition of a shared identity. Originality/value - While the literature on the ethnic Chinese business community is focusing on those factors that are conducive to business operations, little attention has been paid to the manners in which business failure is dealt with. In this paper, business failure will be investigated in terms of the impact emanating from the embeddedness of ethnic Chinese businesses in complex economic, social-cultural, and political configurations.
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    Journal Title
    Journal of Enterprising Communities
    Volume
    4
    Issue
    2
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1108/17506201011048086
    Copyright Statement
    © 2010 Emerald. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Entrepreneurship
    Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/49554
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