Diversification and extensible networks: The strategies of Chinese businesses in Australia


Autoria(s): Lever-Tracy, Constance; Ip, David
Data(s)

01/08/2005

Resumo

The paper reports on a study of 28 ethnic Chinese businesses in Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth, carried out in 2000 and 2001. It focuses on their strategies of vertical, horizontal, and unrelated diversification often combining different activities, products, and markets at the same time. It demonstrates how these practices are socially embedded in their preference for using personal networks. Non-related diversification, in particular, promotes and is facilitated by using weak ties that serve as bridges, leading into new networks (Granovetter, 1973). This can create links to Chinese of different national and dialect origins and to those of other ethnicities. It is suggested that open networks and diversification mutually interact to support each other and may have evolved in tandem from earlier, more closed and niche bound business cultures and practices.

Identificador

http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:74982

Idioma(s)

eng

Publicador

Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

Palavras-Chave #Demography #C1 #370103 Race and Ethnic Relations #750311 Migrant development and welfare
Tipo

Journal Article