Chinese enterprise, transnationalism, and identity

In this volume, our primary objective is to challenge the theory that ethnic Chinese of the diaspora share an essentially identical set of cultural traits and that their businesses display an essentially uniform "ethnic style." This theory has come to be associated with the so-called "culturalist perspective," which appears to have secured the support of a growing number of researchers in the field of "Chinese enterprise." We, however, contest this perspective, and contend that in business, entrepreneurs work in their own interests.