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Transnational Chinese Business Networks
Transnational Chinese Business Networks
Training Provider: Singapore University of Social Sciences
Course Reference: TGS-2024049733
S$3,185
About This Course
Discuss the speed, scope and impacts of the development of transnational Chinese business networks
Explain the socio-political and socioeconomic impacts of transnational Chinese business networks in regional business activities
Relate emerging regional schemes like Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to the continually evolving roles of overseas Chinese transnational business networks
Identify the nexus and interconnections between overseas Chinese businesses, mainland Chinese investments, existing production networks set up by the West/Japan and the indigenous businesses in Southeast Asia in the context of globalization and regionalism
Describe the political, social, and economic challenges of the role of overseas Chinese businesses in intermediating business activities between incoming Chinese investments and the local business communities in Southeast Asia
Show how overseas Chinese businesses constantly evolve to cope with these challenges
What You'll Learn
This online course introduces students to the origins, evolution, and development of transnational overseas Chinese networks and businesses within the contexts of Southeast Asia. It adopts a multidisciplinary approach that incorporates the disciplines of history, political economy, area studies, diasporic studies and East Asian studies to analyse the integration and evolution of Chinese businesses into regional societies and economies. The course will discuss the role of overseas Chinese businesses in terms of political-economic and political-cultural impacts on production networks, regionalism, and ASEAN economic integration. It relates transnational overseas Chinese businesses to the central role of being intermediaries and ‘pathfinders’ between the ASEAN region, existing Western/Japanese production networks and incoming mainland Chinese investments (including those under the rubric of Belt and Road Initiative). It also looks at the coping mechanisms in overseas Chinese business practices for managing constantly-evolving complex geopolitical trends in sectors such as commodities, banking, and property investments. The course shows the indigenisation of overseas Chinese businesses in Southeast Asia over generations and the emergence of nativised identities of the business owners. Analyses of debates over regional schemes in the integration of ASEAN itself as well as Chinese ambitions in BRI will also be contextualised in the studies of overseas Chinese businesses.