Chinese Business History Interpretive Trends and Priorities for the Future

This study focuses on how Chinese business organization, practice, and success have been interpreted in the historical literature. By introducing various interpretations of China's economic development (including the impact of the West, modernization, and Marxist, Weberian, and revisionist approaches), as well as Western business history theory, the book establishes a basis for constructing an appropriate framework for future research.

Guest Editors' Introduction: Interpretative Trends and Priorities for the Future, Doing Business in China over Three Centuries, Chinese Business History in the People's Republic of China: A Review, Interpretative Trends in Taiwan Scholarship on Chinese Business History: 1600 to the Present, Critique of Scholarship on Chinese Business History in the People's Republic of China and Taiwan, Themes and Issues in Chinese Business History, Tradition and Change in the Chinese Business Enterprise: The Family Firm Past and Present, Comments and Reflections on Chinese Business History, Western Business History: Experience and Comparative Perspectives, Response to Daniel Nelson's Western Business History: Experience and Comparative Perspectives, Enterprise History: Studies and Archives, Author Index to Volume 31 (Fall 1997-summer 1998)

Andrea McElderry, Robert Gardella, Jane K. Leonard