From what my Chinese relatives say, most Chinese businesses are family businesses. Fukuyama's Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity confirms this, and says that it naturally imposes a size limit. So that may explain the underrepresentation in public corporations.
Yeah... my impression is that there are plenty of ethnic Chinese abroad in small businesses and the professions. I’m not convinced that you have to have lots of people in your ethnic group becoming C-level executives before your diaspora is considered “functional”.
From what my Chinese relatives say, most Chinese businesses are family businesses. Fukuyama's Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity confirms this, and says that it naturally imposes a size limit. So that may explain the underrepresentation in public corporations.