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dc.contributor.authorHerrmann-Pillath, Carstenen
dc.date.accessioned2011-12-07-
dc.date.accessioned2011-12-09T12:30:22Z-
dc.date.available2011-12-09T12:30:22Z-
dc.date.issued2011-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/52683-
dc.description.abstractBuilding on a new model of institutions proposed by Aoki and the systemic approach to economic civilizations outlined by Kuran, this paper attempts an analysis of the cultural foundations of recent Chinese economic development. I argue that the cultural impact needs to be conceived as a creative process that involves linguistic entities and other public social items in order to provide integrative meaning to economic interactions and identities to different agents involved. I focus on three phenomena that stand at the center of economic culture in China, networks, localism and modernism. I eschew the standard dualism of individualism vs. collectivism in favour of a more detailed view on the self in social relationships. The Chinese pattern of social relations, guanxi, is also a constituent of localism, i.e. a peculiar arrangement and resulting dynamics of central-local interactions in governing the economy. Localism is balanced by culturalist controls of the center, which in contemporary China builds on the worldview of modernism. Thus, economic modernization is a cultural phenomenon on its own sake. I summarize these interactions in a process analysis based on Aoki's framework.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aFrankfurt School of Finance & Management |cFrankfurt a. M.en
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aFrankfurt School - Working Paper Series |x181en
dc.subject.jelB52en
dc.subject.jelP2en
dc.subject.jelZ1en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordAokien
dc.subject.keywordculture and the economyen
dc.subject.keywordemics/eticsen
dc.subject.keywordguanxien
dc.subject.keywordrelational collectivismen
dc.subject.keywordcentral/local government relationsen
dc.subject.keywordculturalismen
dc.subject.keywordpopulation qualityen
dc.subject.keywordconsumerismen
dc.titleMaking sense of institutional change in China: The cultural dimension of economic growth and modernization-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn678803528en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen
dc.identifier.repecRePEc:zbw:fsfmwp:181en

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