Adjunct Associate Professor David Schak
B Arts (Oriental Languages), M Arts (Anthropology), PhD (Anthropology)
Adjunct Associate Professor, Griffith Business School
Contact details for Adjunct Associate Professor David Schak
Research expertise
- Chinese, Taiwanese society
- Social change
- Taiwanese Buddhism
- Taiwanese business
Current teaching areas
- East and Southeast Asian business management and culture
- Social change in Asia
Publications
Refereed journal articles
- Schak, D.C. 2005, ‘The Inadequacies of Cultural Explanations of Chinese Business: Chineseness and Networking’, Journal of the Humanities and Social Science, no. 4, pp. 1-36.
- Schak, D.C. and Hsiao-hsin Michael Hsiao 2005, ‘Les Organisations Bouddhistes Socialment Engages à Taiwan’, Perspectives Chinoises, no. 88, pp. 45-59.
- Schak, D.C. 2005, ‘Culture and Political Culture: An anthropological view’, Asian Studies Review, no. 29, pp. 305-312.
Book chapter
- Schak, D.C. 2003, 'Business associations and Civil Society in China: the Case of the Taiwanese Business Association’, in Civil Society in Asia, Aldershot: Ashgate.
- Schak, D.C. 2007, 'Socially-engaged Buddhism in Taiwan and its contributions to civil society’, in Hsu Mutsu, Jinhua Chen and Lori Meeks (eds), Development and Practice of Humanitarian Buddhism: Interdisciplinary perspectives, Hualien, Tzuchi University Press, pp. 197-226.
Book chapter - multiple authors
- Schak, D.C. and Hudson, W. 2003, 'Introduction', in Schak and Hudson (eds), Civil Society in Asia, Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 1-8.
- Schak, D.C. and Hudson, W. 2003, 'Postscript: An agenda for further research’, in D. Schak and W. Hudson (eds), Civil Society in Asia, Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 225-227.
Book - multiple authors
- Schak, D.C. and Hudson, W. (eds), 2003 Civil society in Asia, Aldershot: Ashgate.
Other publications
- Forthcoming in the Gale Modern Encyclopedia of Modern China, articles on Civil Society Poverty.