Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Business
About the Book Series
This series focuses on the dynamics of business and styles of management in the Asia-Pacific region. It draws together the latest research into such key topics as finance, management, investment, joint ventures, strategy and business policy, as well as exploring current themes of transformation, growth, ethics and competition. It looks at:
* manufacturing industries;
* service sectors;
* small and medium sized companies;
* giant transnationals;
* specific country studies;
* analysis of the broader region.
The Internationalisation of Retailing in Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Sang Chul Choi, John Dawson, Roy Larke, Masao Mukoyama
August 14, 2018
European retailers have successfully internationalised their activities in Europe but have been less successful in North America. American retailers have been successful in their home market but less so in Europe. The major European and American retailers are now entering Asia and competing ...
The History of Mitsubishi Corporation in London: 1915 to Present Day
1st Edition
By Pernille Rudlin
April 27, 2016
The History of Mitsubishi Corporation in London examines the culture clashes, the friendships and the changing businesses that Mitsubishi Corporation's London branch oversaw in the eighty-five years following its foundation. It examines the paradox of how Mitsubishi Corporation could operate ...
The Dynamics of Japanese Organizations
1st Edition
Edited
By Franz-Jurgen Richter
February 13, 2014
This book assessess the organizational flexibility and pragmatism of Japanese management styles and contrasts this with Western management approaches which focus more closely on patterns of stability. Issues in change and organizational renewal are covered by analysing the dynamic processes by ...
Human Resource Management in China: Past, Current and Future HR Practices in the Industrial Sector
1st Edition
By Cherrie Jiuhua Zhu
September 10, 2012
Enhancing our understanding of HRM in the Chinese industrial sector, this book explores the emerging role of HRM in China's industrial enterprises. A significant contribution to the theory of HRM, this book will be essential reading for students and researchers of Business and Management, HRM and ...
Chinese Corporate Identity
1st Edition
By Peter Peverelli
May 26, 2009
This book represents the first study of economic restructuring in reform era China to apply the concepts of identity and corporate space; notions that have become increasingly relevant as foreign invested and Chinese ventures face complex operational and societal issues in the wake of ...
Transnational Corporations and Business Networks: Hong Kong Firms in the ASEAN Region
1st Edition
By Henry Wai-Chung Yeung
September 11, 2002
Drawing upon extensive field research in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, this book focuses on networks of business and personal relationships as a key means of transnational operations. The book highlights the role of Chinese business networks in facilitating the emergence of transnational ...
International Production Networks in Asia: Rivalry or Riches
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Borrus, Dieter Ernst, Stephan Haggard
October 18, 2000
The economic crisis of 1997 called East Asia's economic miracle into question and generated widespread criticism of the region's developmental models. However, the crisis did little to alter the growing economic integration of American, Japanese and Chinese firms who have created cross-border ...
Hong Kong Management and Labour: Change and Continuity
1st Edition
Edited
By Andy W. Chan, Wilson W. S. Chow, Patricia Fosh, Ed Snape, Robert Westwood
February 08, 2000
Hong Kong Management and Labour argues, in a series of previously unpublished, completely up-to-date contributions, that economic and social change has been ongoing in Hong Kong for many years, and political change is perhaps less important for labour and management in the region. This book is ...
International Management in China: Cross-Cultural Issues
1st Edition
Edited
By Jan Selmer
October 15, 1998
The greatest challenge to international business today is how to manage business operations across cultural boundaries. This is especially true in the case of China, which has attracted a massive amount of foreign investment and international trade recently. This new study examines three main ...
The State, Society and Big Business in South Korea
1st Edition
By Yeon-Ho Lee
September 18, 1997
This book examines how the South Korean state is able to execute national policies that are opposed to the interests of social constituents, despite the expansion of social power. The relationship between the government and big business provides an illuminating example of this. The author ...
Entrepreneurship and Economic Development in Hong Kong
1st Edition
By Tony Fu-Lai Yu
July 03, 1997
This is the first systematic study of the nature, operation and contribution of entrepreneurship to the growth of Hong Kong. From a new entrepreneurial perspective of economic development, the author argues that the success of Hong Kong is attributable principally to adaptive entrepreneurship: ...
Business Relationships with East Asia: The European Experience
1st Edition
Edited
By Jim Slater, Roger Strange
June 23, 1997
This volume analyses the business environment in East Asia with reference to trade and investment flows within the region and between East Asia and Europe. Focusing on the two-way flow of management ideas, investment and technology, this study highlights the way in which both sides can benefit....