Capital and knowledge in Asia : changing power relations /

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Imprint:	London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.
Description:	1 online resource (xx, 239 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	RoutledgeCurzon studies in the growth economies of Asia ; 46 RoutledgeCurzon studies in the growth economies of Asia ; 46.
Subject:	Service industries -- Asia. Service industries -- Asia -- Case studies. Social mobility -- Asia. Industrial policy -- Asia. Economic history. Industrial policy. Service industries. Social mobility. Asia -- Economic conditions -- 1945- Asia. Electronic books. Case studies.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11297089

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Other authors / contributors:	Dahles, Heidi. Muijzenberg, Otto Diederik van den.
ISBN:	0203711785 9780203711781 0415304172 9780415304177 1134409338 9781134409334
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-235) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	Global economic integration, widening communication networks and government policies supportive of private enterprise are changing opportunities for accumulating wealth, status and power. In varying degrees throughout Asia, this process is accompanied by the development of service enterprises such as banking, insurance, legal firms and IT firms, which provide access to the resources required for a profitable connection to the wider world. 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 w.
Other form:	Print version: Capital and knowledge in Asia. London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003 0415304172

Table of Contents:

1. Producer Services, Social Mobility and the State in Asia: Lessons from Western Economies
The New Economy: Boosting New People or Bolstering Old Ties?
2. Networking for Domination: The Interconnectivity amongst Business and Government Actors in the Information Technology of
3. The Status of Non-Banking Financial Companies in India: A Case Study from Ahmedabad
4. Cyber Gurus and Social Mobility in India's 'Silicon Valley'
5. Restructuring Capitilist 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 Edsel E. Sajor 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 Life Assurance-OCBC Group
10. Local Merchant Shipping Companies in Malaysia: Expansion and Diversification Loh Wei Leng Producer Services in Transitional Economies
11. New Entrepreneurs in Reform China: Economic Growth and Social Change in Taiyuan
12. Business Services in Transitional Economies: The Case of Russia
Olga van der Wusten-Gritsai.
13. Conclusions

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