
Performativity, Corporate Behavior, Institutional Change and Rituals in China
Man Guo(Author)
Shaker (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 15. August 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
198 pages
978-3-8440-2938-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book provides a broad theoretical and practical position on how ritual behavior functions in Chinese corporations. Rituals are structured to allow individual agents or corporations and corporate groups to transform through different contexts, enact different roles, share the same identities, keep hierarchy levels, provide close relationships with government, weave a guanxi network structure, integrate specific cultural elements, and, more importantly, permit the government and corporations to promote both stability and change in Chinese society. By bridging performativity theory and indigenous perspectives, I have constructed a conceptual and analytical framework for understanding ritual-embedded corporate behavior and the role of institutions in the economies - both historical and contemporary - in a unified way.
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Series
Thesis
Doctoral thesis
2014
Universität Witten/Herdecke
Language
English
Place of publication
Aachen
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
17
Dimensions
Height: 21 cm
Width: 14.8 cm
Weight
297 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8440-2938-3 (9783844029383)
Schweitzer Classification