Chinese social-institutions imitating nature?

This study provides a theoretical foundation explaining the long-standing paradox of Chinese-Indonesian entrepreneurs' highly successful economic behaviour. Combining Western and Eastern philosophies, this study examines the role of culture in prescribing beliefs and practices that affect human efforts to self- actualise, notably the motivations underlying these entrepreneurs' business practices. It applies Aristotle's notion of phronesis (practical knowledge or wisdom) to organisation studies. The enquiry employs the concept of self- organising systems (drawn from complexity theory) to ground the Confucian organismic conception of the cosmos. The underlying empirical study investigated Chinese entrepreneurs' strategic actions in a particular field (Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia), an environment characterised by complexity, uncertainty and social instability.

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Lenny Sunaryo, Ph.D. es miembro de la facultad en el Departamento de Organización, Prasetiya Mulya Business School, Yakarta, Indonesia. Ella se inspira en el concepto de Autoorganización (Teoría de la Complejidad), que trata todas las cosas y los humanos están inextricablemente implicados en las interacciones, por lo que son complejas, pero coevolucionan en armonía. Con suerte, esto también inspira a otros.