This issue of International Journal of Business Anthropology contains seven articles related to various aspects of business anthropology, from theories to practices. The first text discusses the concept of business anthropology, the second discusses the impact of economic development on ethnic and cultural diversity with reference to the concept of anomie, and the third explores changes in religious elites authority regarding conflicts over tourism development. In the fourth article, consumer entrepreneurs are discussed, in relation to how they attain political legitimacy for their emerging industry in interaction with the state. This part also analyses the discourses made by consumer entrepreneurs who co-created the anti-fraudulence industry in China between 1994 and 214. The fifth article answers questions concerning Chinas booming economy and its social-economic situation, while the sixth explores the effect of Consumer Ethnocentricity under the conditions of a persistent financial crisis. Lastly, the seventh part studies the practice of incorruptible construction in multinational enterprises in order to facilitate transnational corporations culture consultations and reinforce incorruptible construction policies.

About the Author

Dr Gang Chen is the Chair Professor and Director of the Center for Social and Economic Behavior Studies at Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, China. He received an MA in Anthropology from Iowa State University, USA, in 1993, and a PhD in the same field from the Ohio State University, USA, in 2000. His main research interests are in the areas of business anthropology, food safety and culture, development anthropology and cultural tourism, globalization and culture change. He has received numerous research grants and has published substantially both in the USA and in China. Dr Robert Guang Tian is Director of the Institute of Business Anthropology and Professor of Marketing at the Business School of Shantou University, China. He received a doctoral degree in Social Anthropology from York University, Canada, in 1996, and an MBA degree from Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada, in 1999. Dr Tian has received numerous research grants and published many papers and books. He is well-known among academics and scholars around the world, in the field of business anthropology.