In the Shadow of the States: the Informalities of Chinese Petty Entrepreneurship in Nigeria

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"The burgeoning interstate relation between China and Nigeria is in fact hiding the vulnerable condition of transnational Chinese petty entrepreneurship. Small-scale Chinese entrepreneurs in Nigeria are faced with everyday corruption practised by both Nigerian authorities and ordinary Nigerian people, the dominance of self-interest over cohesion and mutual support among the Chinese compatriots, and variations in state policies due to dynamic and changing interstate relations. To overcome their position of weakness, small-scale Chinese entrepreneurs strategize their interactions with both Nigerian and Chinese nationals. Informality is a characteristic of such interactions. Economic informality is primarily embodied in the documentation service businesses that are indebted to those popular corrupt practices in Nigeria; while social informality takes place in cyberspace. Interaction via the Internet among Chinese involved in Chinese-Nigerian businesses helps small-scale Chinese entrepreneurs to cope with fluctuations in interstate links at the macro-level and to develop a sense of community." (author's abstract)

Angaben zum Objekt

• Weitere Titel: Im Schatten der Staaten: die Informalitäten chinesischen Kleinunternehmertums in Nigeria
• Sprache: Deutsch
• Umfang: Seite(n): 75-105
• ISSN: 1868-1026
• Anmerkungen: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 44(1)

Klassifikation und Themen

• Thema: Internationale Beziehungen ; Soziologie, Anthropologie ; Wirtschaftssoziologie ; internationale Beziehungen, Entwicklungspolitik ; Kleinbetrieb ; Chinese ; Nigeria ; Vulnerabilität ; Korruption ; informelle Struktur ; China ; Westafrika ; Entwicklungsland ; Ostasien

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Xiao, Allen Hai
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wo): Deutschland
• (wann): 2015

Weitere Informationen

• URN: urn:nbn:de:gbv:18-4-8163
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 21.06.2024, 16:27 MESZ