Family firms, networks and 'ethnic enterprise': Chinese food industry in britain

East Asia

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 133-157

  Gomez, Edmund Terence ^a   Cheung, Gordon C K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capitalism; Chinese food enterprises; Ethnicity; Guanxi; Networks

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT; CAPITALISM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DIASPORA; ETHNICITY; FIRM OWNERSHIP; FOOD INDUSTRY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 67349211003     PISSN: 10966838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12140-009-9079-y     Document Type: Article

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