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Title:
Chinese Enterprise: Resources and Opportunities
Speaker:
Professor Jack Barbalet (Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy, University of Western Sydney)
Date:
November 3, 2010
Time:
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Venue:
Room G-4, Tang Chi Ngong Building, The University of Hong Kong
Language:
English
The presentation sets out principles for the investigation of Chinese family enterprise through the development of a theory of action which functions in terms of the concepts of resources and opportunities. Kinship relations are a significant conduit for resources of enterprise not only in China but also in Europe and America. The model of opportunities proposed here distinguishes between objective patterns of opportunity, the specification of which permits differentiation of enterprise cultures, and cognitive opportunity structures which function in terms of schemata relating to anticipations of and responses to change.
Jack Barbalet is a Professorial Fellow in the Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy at the University of Western Sydney. Prior to returning to Australia in 2008, on appointment as Foundation Professor of Sociology at UWS, he was Professor of Sociology and Head of Department at the University of Leicester. His most recent book, Weber, Passion and Profits: “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism” in Context (Cambridge University Press 2008), brings together his interests in theory, emotions and economy. Recent papers have appeared in Journal of Classical Sociology, Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, European Journal of Social Theory, Theory and Society, and Cambridge Journal of Economics.
Department of Sociology, The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong
