Overview
- Includes original interviews with business managers at multinational corporations
- Provides practical implications for the future of education and business development and integration
- Offers a contextualized theoretical extension of the capitalist system from the view of regional political economies
Part of the book series: Frontiers of Globalization (FOG)
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About this book
This book explores the personal experiences of professionals who are a part of the post-colonial and late-industrializing reality in the global value chain in Singapore. Looking at Chinese Singaporean employees at a French multi-national firm, the author explores the evolving social constructions of ‘Chineseness’. Sociologist Manuel Castells once hailed Singapore as ‘the only true Leninist project that has survived’, and Lee revisits the Singapore ‘social laboratory’, addressing recent dialectics that transpire within the global political economy. Currently, professional actors need to address the demands of dual hegemony in response to China’s rise in the Western-dominated capitalist political economy. Underlying these constructions are enduring dispositions that mediate interpretations of professionalism. The author puts to test the potential for change, surveying a large cohort of teachers as makers of future professionals. The question is, does change occurin the domain of practice or the habitus, if it is possible in the first place?
The book will be of interest to scholars and students with an interest in Sociology, Identity and Ethnicity, Business Management, Globalisation, Organizational Sociology and Sociology of Education.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Daphnee Lee is Assistant Professor of Education Policy and Leadership, The Education University of Hong Kong.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Managing Chineseness
Book Subtitle: Identity and Ethnic Management in Singapore
Authors: Daphnee Lee
Series Title: Frontiers of Globalization
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58258-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-58257-7Published: 20 December 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-58258-4Published: 24 November 2016
Series ISSN: 2946-3777
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3785
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 262
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Globalization, Sociology of Work, Emerging Markets/Globalization