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The sexual division of labor and the organization of family and firm in an overseas Chinese community

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ID2988972
AuthorsEllen Oxfeld Basu (Middlebury College, corresponding author)
Year1991
Volume18
Issue4
Pages700-718
Publication date1991-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Ethnologist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/ae.1991.18.4.02a00040
OpenAlexW2116994751
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited33

Scholars of the Chinese entrepreneurial ethic describe married women's primary entrepreneurial strategy as an indirect one-motivating sons to work hard for the family. Research in a community of overseas Chinese entrepreneurs, however, reveals diversity in married women's strategies. After cross-tabulating a number of variables, including family type, spatial organization, and firm size, this article concludes that firm size is the most influential factor with respect to women's strategies and roles. Its impact is explained in terms of the relationship of entrepreneurial ideology to Chinese family relationships and sex roles. [China, women, entre-preneurship, developmental cycle, sexual division of labor

China · Demographic economics · Diversity (politics · Division of labour · Economics · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences · Family Business Performance and Succession · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

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Unique citing works7
Citations per year0,2
Citation span1991 - 2017 (27)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 7

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