{"product_id":"chinese-big-business-in-indonesia","title":"Chinese Big Business in Indonesia","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe disintegration of Indonesia's New Order regime in 1998 and the fall of \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSoeharto put an end to the crude forms of centralised authoritarianism and \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eeconomic protectionism that allowed large Chinese conglomerates to dom- \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einate Indonesia's private sector. Contrary to all expectations, most of the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emajor capitalist groups, though damaged considerably by the Asian Crisis, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emanaged to cope with the ensuing monumental political and economic \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003echanges, and now thrive again albeit within a new democratic environment. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book Christian Chua assesses the state of capital before, during, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand after the financial and political crisis of 1997\/1998 and analyses the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003echanging relationships between business and the state in Indonesia. Using a \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edistinct perspective that combines cultural and structural approaches on \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChinese big business with exclusive material derived from interviews with \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esome of Indonesia’s major business leaders, Chua identifies the strategies \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eemployed by tycoons to adapt their corporations to the post-authoritarian \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eregime and provides a unique insight into how state-business relationships \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein Indonesia have evolved since the crisis. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChinese Big Business in Indonesia is the first major analysis of capital in \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndonesia since the fall of Soeharto, and will be of interest to graduate \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estudents and scholars of political economy, political sociology, economics \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand business administration as well as to practitioners having to do with \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSoutheast Asian business and politics. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54257384489304,"sku":"9780415450744","price":198.4,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780415450744.jpg?v=1769156136","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/chinese-big-business-in-indonesia","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}