Narratives of Change: Culture and Local Economic Development
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- UTS
- Publication Type:
- Journal Article
- Citation:
- Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 2007, 4 (1), pp. 1 - 12
- Issue Date:
- 2007-01
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There are essentially three difficulties attending any search for cultural explanations of change in China: culture can be a broad and often a somewhat imprecise concept; the scale of China makes for difficulties in the unit of analysis; and the assumption of historical continuity may be somewhat attenuated. The antidote to essentialisation about Chinese culture is to approach explanation at a more local level. A recognition that there are local accounts of social and economic change that both help motivate behaviour and provide legitimation for specific forms of activity provides a more convincing framework for understanding the role of culture in both the evolution of the economic environment and business development.
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