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Encountering Chinese Networks: Western, Japanese, and Chinese Corporations in China, 1880-1937
Sherman Gilbert Cochran
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Description for Encountering Chinese Networks: Western, Japanese, and Chinese Corporations in China, 1880-1937
Hardback. The text studies how various Western, Japanese, and Chinese businesses struggled with the persistent dilemma in China of how to retain control over corporate hierachies while adapting to dramatic changes in Chinese society, politics and foreign affairs from 1880-1937. Num Pages: 269 pages, 11 b/w photographs, 15 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; 3JJ; GTB; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW; KCZ; KJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 463.
Big businesses have faced a persistent dilemma in China since the nineteenth century: how to retain control over corporate hierarchies while adapting to local social networks. Sherman Cochran, in the first study to compare Western, Japanese, and Chinese businesses in Chinese history, shows how various businesses have struggled with this issue as they have adjusted to dramatic changes in Chinese society, politics, and foreign affairs. Cochran devotes a chapter each to six of the biggest business ventures in China before the Communist revolution: two Western-owned companies, Standard Oil and British-American Tobacco Company; two Japanese-owned companies, Mitsui Trading Company and ... Read more
Big businesses have faced a persistent dilemma in China since the nineteenth century: how to retain control over corporate hierarchies while adapting to local social networks. Sherman Cochran, in the first study to compare Western, Japanese, and Chinese businesses in Chinese history, shows how various businesses have struggled with this issue as they have adjusted to dramatic changes in Chinese society, politics, and foreign affairs. Cochran devotes a chapter each to six of the biggest business ventures in China before the Communist revolution: two Western-owned companies, Standard Oil and British-American Tobacco Company; two Japanese-owned companies, Mitsui Trading Company and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
269
Condition
New
Number of Pages
270
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520216259
SKU
V9780520216259
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99-1
About Sherman Gilbert Cochran
Sherman Cochran is Professor of History at Cornell University. He has written Big Business in China (1980) and has co-authored (with Andrew C.K. Hsieh and Janis Cochran) One Day in China (1983).
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