Constance Lever‐tracy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3780398 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Constance Lever‐tracy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Constance |
| FAMILY NAME | Lever‐tracy |
| SIGNATURE | TRACY C L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Flinders University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8929-9456 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Global Warming
Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have significantly increased the concentration of atmospheric “greenhouse gases,” which has led to a warming of the earth's climate. This global warming and related climate changes are creating a less stable and habitable environment for life, such as by radically altering precipitation patterns, causing more destructive weather events, and melting polar ice and consequently generating sea level rises. Whil…
Assessing the public willingness to contribute income to mitigate the effects of climate change: A comparison of Adelaide and Lisbon
While the scientific rationale for climate change mitigation has never been stronger, the Australian public is still hesitant about personally contributing to its costs. This public reticence is often explained as resulting from cost-benefit calculations and a human propensity to prioritize present over future goods. In this article we argue that these assumptions have limited bearing on people's willingness to contribute. Our research supports t…
Sociology Still Lagging on Climate Change
This note responds to the discussion pieces by Elizabeth Shove and John Urry in the debates section of Sociological Research Online, 31 August 2010
Global Warming and Sociology
Escalating climate change, partly induced by human activity, has made its way into public awareness, yet most sociologists, outside the specialism of environmental sociology, have had surprisingly little to say about the possible future social trajectories it may portend. Wary of accepting the truth claims of natural science, but aware of our own inability to judge the validity of their claims, we have generally preferred to look the other way, a…
A Civilised Gemeinschaft: Ally of Civil Society in Capitalist Development
Diversification and Extensible Networks: The Strategies of Chinese Businesses in Australia 1
The paper reports on a study of 28 ethnic Chinese businesses in Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth, carried out in 2000 and 2001. It focuses on their strategies of vertical, horizontal, and unrelated diversification often combining different activities, products, and markets at the same time. It demonstrates how these practices are socially embedded in their preference for using personal networks. Non‐related diversification, in particular, promotes a…
A New Alliance for Profit
With hindsight, we can see that the opening of China to foreign investment was a crucial moment in the evolution of the Chinese diaspora as a major force in the international political economy. The importance for them of the opportunities resulting from economic reform in China were in providing profitable outlets for surplus capital, the means of industrial restructuring and the basis of exponential growth of their industrial capacity. On the Ch…
The impact of the Asian crisis on diaspora Chinese tycoons
Social exchange, reciprocity and amoral familism: Aspects of Italian chain migration to Australia
This paper examines new evidence on Italian chain migration to Australia. General theories stressing social and cultural differences between Northern and Southern Italians are challenged. The argument is in two parts. The first involves a critique of the idea of Southern Italian amoral familism, based on evidence of convergence between Northern and Southern patterns of chain migration and settlement. This finding is corrosive both of Banfield's w…
The three faces of capitalism and the Asian crisis
The paper takes a globalizing world, characterized by increasing flows between multiple and diverse centers, as the context for the Asian crisis. It seeks to identify problems of articulation between different ways of integrating capitalist operations, conceptualized in a tripartite schema of hierarchical plan, anonymous market, and horizontal networks. Each of the three has different requirements for effective functioning, different strengths an…
A rejoinder
Martin Hart-Landsberg and Paul Burkett (hereafter “the authors”) attack our paper on three main counts. The first claims that we have set up an absurd model of three separate and distinct capitalisms, in which exploitation of workers plays no significant part, and in two of which market relations have no place. The second is that we have misunderstood the Asian financial crisis as a temporary crisis of friction between these capitalisms, rather t…
Dependency and Rivalry: East Asia, Japan and the West
The Decline of Japan in Asia—an Update
This paper focuses on relative levels of investment and trade between Japan and East Asia in the 1990s. Although Japan has been devoting a higher proportion of its world wide investments to this region, the value of this investment has been falling absolutely and even more so relative to the size of inflows from other sources. The region is more important for the trade of Japan than is Japan for the trade of the region. While trade between Japan …
The Third China? Emerging industrial districts in rural China
While the growth of postfordist industrial districts in certain locations in the developed world has been well documented, the impact of the shift toward flexible production in the so-called third world has received less attention. This paper is an attempt to incorporate the dynamic, networked, manufacturing family firms in parts of China into the flexible industrial district debate. We argue that dense networks of small firms emerging in rural C…
The Tycoons
Despite the media publicity, which they sometimes seek and sometimes cannot avoid, the diaspora tycoons, like icebergs, often display less than they conceal. Listed companies publish accounts and reports and journalists retail the public pronouncements of their officeholders, but the workings of the secretive private companies and of the personal relationships that are behind the public face can often only be guessed at. In this chapter we will, …
The Chinese Diaspora and Mainland China: An Emerging Economic Synergy
The book describes the alliance, since the mid-1980s, of the entrepreneurs of the Chinese diaspora with the new locally based industrialisation that reform in China has allowed to flourish in its town
Fukuyama's Hijacking of Chinese Trust
Fukuyama's extolling of traditions of business trust, now under threat from a ‘culture of rights’, may have some validity, but attempts to associate such traditions with the emergence of large corporations are far from convincing. His counterposition of both to the claimed ‘low trust’ business traditions of Italians and Chinese is theoretically crude and empirically incorrect and it involves him in tangles with significant ‘anomalies’ some of whi…
Diaspora Capitalism and the Homeland: Australian Chinese Networks into China
Diaspora 5:2 1996 Diaspora Capitalism and the Homeland: Australian Chinese Networks into China Constance Lever-Tracy Flinders University of South Australia David Ip University of Queensland Introduction: Earlier Perspectives on Diasporan Chinese Capitalism This article explores two new and related phenomena of the late twentieth century that will surely play a major role in shaping the world ofthe twenty-first: the economic development and openin…
The Dragon and the Rising Sun: Market Integration and Economic Rivalry in East and Southeast Asia
Interpersonal Trust in Ethnic Business—Traditional, Modern or Postmodern
(1992). Interpersonal Trust in Ethnic Business—Traditional, Modern or Postmodern? Policy, Organisation and Society: Vol. 5, Special Trust Issue, pp. 50-63
The price of commitment: Return migration and citizenship
Australian trade union strategies on part‐time work: A two‐edged sword
Immigrant workers: Dignity, greed and industrial militancy
The Paradigm Crisis of Dualism: Decay or Regeneration
Immigrant Workers and Postwar Capitalism: In Reserve or Core Troops in the Front Line
Global Warming and Sociology
Escalating climate change, partly induced by human activity, has made its way into public awareness, yet most sociologists, outside the specialism of environmental sociology, have had surprisingly little to say about the possible future social trajectories it may portend. Wary of accepting the truth claims of natural science, but aware of our own inability to judge the validity of their claims, we have generally preferred to look the other way, a…
Immigrant Workers and Postwar Capitalism: In Reserve or Core Troops in the Front Line
The Third China? Emerging industrial districts in rural China
While the growth of postfordist industrial districts in certain locations in the developed world has been well documented, the impact of the shift toward flexible production in the so-called third world has received less attention. This paper is an attempt to incorporate the dynamic, networked, manufacturing family firms in parts of China into the flexible industrial district debate. We argue that dense networks of small firms emerging in rural C…
Social exchange, reciprocity and amoral familism: Aspects of Italian chain migration to Australia
This paper examines new evidence on Italian chain migration to Australia. General theories stressing social and cultural differences between Northern and Southern Italians are challenged. The argument is in two parts. The first involves a critique of the idea of Southern Italian amoral familism, based on evidence of convergence between Northern and Southern patterns of chain migration and settlement. This finding is corrosive both of Banfield's w…
Diaspora Capitalism and the Homeland: Australian Chinese Networks into China
Diaspora 5:2 1996 Diaspora Capitalism and the Homeland: Australian Chinese Networks into China Constance Lever-Tracy Flinders University of South Australia David Ip University of Queensland Introduction: Earlier Perspectives on Diasporan Chinese Capitalism This article explores two new and related phenomena of the late twentieth century that will surely play a major role in shaping the world ofthe twenty-first: the economic development and openin…
The Paradigm Crisis of Dualism: Decay or Regeneration
Diversification and Extensible Networks: The Strategies of Chinese Businesses in Australia 1
The paper reports on a study of 28 ethnic Chinese businesses in Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth, carried out in 2000 and 2001. It focuses on their strategies of vertical, horizontal, and unrelated diversification often combining different activities, products, and markets at the same time. It demonstrates how these practices are socially embedded in their preference for using personal networks. Non‐related diversification, in particular, promotes a…
The impact of the Asian crisis on diaspora Chinese tycoons
Assessing the public willingness to contribute income to mitigate the effects of climate change: A comparison of Adelaide and Lisbon
While the scientific rationale for climate change mitigation has never been stronger, the Australian public is still hesitant about personally contributing to its costs. This public reticence is often explained as resulting from cost-benefit calculations and a human propensity to prioritize present over future goods. In this article we argue that these assumptions have limited bearing on people's willingness to contribute. Our research supports t…
Immigrant workers: Dignity, greed and industrial militancy
Global Warming
Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have significantly increased the concentration of atmospheric “greenhouse gases,” which has led to a warming of the earth's climate. This global warming and related climate changes are creating a less stable and habitable environment for life, such as by radically altering precipitation patterns, causing more destructive weather events, and melting polar ice and consequently generating sea level rises. Whil…
Dependency and Rivalry: East Asia, Japan and the West
The Dragon and the Rising Sun: Market Integration and Economic Rivalry in East and Southeast Asia
Immigrant Workers and Postwar Capitalism: In Reserve or Core Troops in the Front Line
Immigrant workers: Dignity, greed and industrial militancy
The Paradigm Crisis of Dualism: Decay or Regeneration
Australian trade union strategies on part‐time work: A two‐edged sword
The price of commitment: Return migration and citizenship
Interpersonal Trust in Ethnic Business—Traditional, Modern or Postmodern
(1992). Interpersonal Trust in Ethnic Business—Traditional, Modern or Postmodern? Policy, Organisation and Society: Vol. 5, Special Trust Issue, pp. 50-63
The Dragon and the Rising Sun: Market Integration and Economic Rivalry in East and Southeast Asia
The Tycoons
Despite the media publicity, which they sometimes seek and sometimes cannot avoid, the diaspora tycoons, like icebergs, often display less than they conceal. Listed companies publish accounts and reports and journalists retail the public pronouncements of their officeholders, but the workings of the secretive private companies and of the personal relationships that are behind the public face can often only be guessed at. In this chapter we will, …
The Chinese Diaspora and Mainland China: An Emerging Economic Synergy
The book describes the alliance, since the mid-1980s, of the entrepreneurs of the Chinese diaspora with the new locally based industrialisation that reform in China has allowed to flourish in its town
Fukuyama's Hijacking of Chinese Trust
Fukuyama's extolling of traditions of business trust, now under threat from a ‘culture of rights’, may have some validity, but attempts to associate such traditions with the emergence of large corporations are far from convincing. His counterposition of both to the claimed ‘low trust’ business traditions of Italians and Chinese is theoretically crude and empirically incorrect and it involves him in tangles with significant ‘anomalies’ some of whi…
Diaspora Capitalism and the Homeland: Australian Chinese Networks into China
Diaspora 5:2 1996 Diaspora Capitalism and the Homeland: Australian Chinese Networks into China Constance Lever-Tracy Flinders University of South Australia David Ip University of Queensland Introduction: Earlier Perspectives on Diasporan Chinese Capitalism This article explores two new and related phenomena of the late twentieth century that will surely play a major role in shaping the world ofthe twenty-first: the economic development and openin…
The Decline of Japan in Asia—an Update
This paper focuses on relative levels of investment and trade between Japan and East Asia in the 1990s. Although Japan has been devoting a higher proportion of its world wide investments to this region, the value of this investment has been falling absolutely and even more so relative to the size of inflows from other sources. The region is more important for the trade of Japan than is Japan for the trade of the region. While trade between Japan …
The Third China? Emerging industrial districts in rural China
While the growth of postfordist industrial districts in certain locations in the developed world has been well documented, the impact of the shift toward flexible production in the so-called third world has received less attention. This paper is an attempt to incorporate the dynamic, networked, manufacturing family firms in parts of China into the flexible industrial district debate. We argue that dense networks of small firms emerging in rural C…
Dependency and Rivalry: East Asia, Japan and the West
The three faces of capitalism and the Asian crisis
The paper takes a globalizing world, characterized by increasing flows between multiple and diverse centers, as the context for the Asian crisis. It seeks to identify problems of articulation between different ways of integrating capitalist operations, conceptualized in a tripartite schema of hierarchical plan, anonymous market, and horizontal networks. Each of the three has different requirements for effective functioning, different strengths an…
A rejoinder
Martin Hart-Landsberg and Paul Burkett (hereafter “the authors”) attack our paper on three main counts. The first claims that we have set up an absurd model of three separate and distinct capitalisms, in which exploitation of workers plays no significant part, and in two of which market relations have no place. The second is that we have misunderstood the Asian financial crisis as a temporary crisis of friction between these capitalisms, rather t…
Social exchange, reciprocity and amoral familism: Aspects of Italian chain migration to Australia
This paper examines new evidence on Italian chain migration to Australia. General theories stressing social and cultural differences between Northern and Southern Italians are challenged. The argument is in two parts. The first involves a critique of the idea of Southern Italian amoral familism, based on evidence of convergence between Northern and Southern patterns of chain migration and settlement. This finding is corrosive both of Banfield's w…
The impact of the Asian crisis on diaspora Chinese tycoons
A New Alliance for Profit
With hindsight, we can see that the opening of China to foreign investment was a crucial moment in the evolution of the Chinese diaspora as a major force in the international political economy. The importance for them of the opportunities resulting from economic reform in China were in providing profitable outlets for surplus capital, the means of industrial restructuring and the basis of exponential growth of their industrial capacity. On the Ch…
Diversification and Extensible Networks: The Strategies of Chinese Businesses in Australia 1
The paper reports on a study of 28 ethnic Chinese businesses in Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth, carried out in 2000 and 2001. It focuses on their strategies of vertical, horizontal, and unrelated diversification often combining different activities, products, and markets at the same time. It demonstrates how these practices are socially embedded in their preference for using personal networks. Non‐related diversification, in particular, promotes a…
A Civilised Gemeinschaft: Ally of Civil Society in Capitalist Development
Global Warming and Sociology
Escalating climate change, partly induced by human activity, has made its way into public awareness, yet most sociologists, outside the specialism of environmental sociology, have had surprisingly little to say about the possible future social trajectories it may portend. Wary of accepting the truth claims of natural science, but aware of our own inability to judge the validity of their claims, we have generally preferred to look the other way, a…
Sociology Still Lagging on Climate Change
This note responds to the discussion pieces by Elizabeth Shove and John Urry in the debates section of Sociological Research Online, 31 August 2010
Assessing the public willingness to contribute income to mitigate the effects of climate change: A comparison of Adelaide and Lisbon
While the scientific rationale for climate change mitigation has never been stronger, the Australian public is still hesitant about personally contributing to its costs. This public reticence is often explained as resulting from cost-benefit calculations and a human propensity to prioritize present over future goods. In this article we argue that these assumptions have limited bearing on people's willingness to contribute. Our research supports t…
Global Warming
Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have significantly increased the concentration of atmospheric “greenhouse gases,” which has led to a warming of the earth's climate. This global warming and related climate changes are creating a less stable and habitable environment for life, such as by radically altering precipitation patterns, causing more destructive weather events, and melting polar ice and consequently generating sea level rises. Whil…
Economics (18 works) · Political science (17 works) · Law (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (11 works) · Business (8 works) · China (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works)