Routledge Library Editions: Business and Economics in Asia
About the Book Series
This set examines a vast range of topics covering all experiences of business and economics from across Asia. Dealing with early banking systems in China; the industrialisation of Korea and Taiwan; the evolution of Japanese business practices; economic development; protectionist policies; industrial investment; trade; tourism; and a host of other topics, the books collected here form a vital reference resource across a wide subject area.
Japanese Investment in Manchurian Manufacturing, Mining, Transportation, and Communications, 1931-1945
1st Edition
By Ann Rasmussen Kinney
March 09, 2020
This book, first published in 1982, closely examines the Japanese investment in the industries of its puppet state Manchuria in the years 1930 to 1945. Attention is paid to industrial capital by source and type, facilitating the analysis of the relationship between the different investment ...
Management Issues in China: Volume 1: Domestic Enterprises
1st Edition
Edited
By David H. Brown, Robin Porter
March 09, 2020
This book, first published in 1996, examines the problems associated with the management of change, particularly those brought about by the rapid pace of economic development in China in the ‘reform’ period since 1979. China’s managers were challenged as never before as the country integrated ...
Management Issues in China: Volume 2: International Enterprises
1st Edition
Edited
By John Child, Yuan Lu
March 09, 2020
As the 1990s progressed, China began to emerge as an economic giant. The chapters in this book, first published in 1996, illustrate many aspects of China’s path to internationalization. They also raise important questions for further study. What becomes clear is that to succeed in China’s business ...
Opening Japan's Financial Markets
1st Edition
By J. Robert Brown, Jr.
March 09, 2020
This book, first published in 1994, takes a broad look at the reasons behind the failure of foreign banks to penetrate Japanese financial markets. It accepts the common argument that the Japanese bureaucracy has skilfully limited the scope of foreign banks and discusses at length the methods used ...
P.R.C. Laws for China Traders and Investors: Second Edition, Revised
1st Edition
By Thomas C.W. Chiu
March 09, 2020
This book, first published in 1988, is a comprehensive reference of the laws and practice relating to trade between China and the rest of the world, at a time when the country had only recently opened its markets to foreigners. It shows how China wished to develop foreign trade, the methods it used...
Poverty, Food Insecurity and Commercialization in Rural China
1st Edition
By Zhong Tong
March 09, 2020
This study, first published in 1993, analyses the relationship among poverty, food insecurity and commercialization in rural China by employing agricultural household models. Data are derived from a 10,000 household subsample of the annual rural household consumption and expenditure survey....
The Accounting System of Native Banks in Peking and Tientsin
1st Edition
By Li Chien Ming
March 09, 2020
This book, first published in 1941, is a comprehensive study on the native banks that linked small Chinese traders and the larger Chinese and foreign banks. It is based on extensive research in Tientsin and Peking, and a large number of interviews with native bankers, and the result is an ...
The Adoption and Diffusion of Imported Technology: The Case of Korea
1st Edition
By J.L. Enos, W.-H. Park
March 09, 2020
This book, first published in 1988, considers the problems that developing countries face when importing technology from abroad. The major issues - technical, economic, political - are analysed in the case of one particular country: Korea. The book describes the negotiations with the foreign ...
The Development of Japanese Business, 1600-1980: Second Edition
1st Edition
By Johannes Hirschmeier, Tsunehiko Yui
March 09, 2020
The study, first published in 1981, traces the history and development of Japanese business from the seventeenth century, and is the only text that systematically treats the rise of Japanese business in its full complexity and against the background of contemporary social and political conditions. ...
The Evolution of Industrial Systems: The Forking Paths
1st Edition
By Timothy Leggatt
March 09, 2020
This book, first published in 1985, tackles simultaneously three major questions about the course of industrial evolution: what are the features of the industrial systems that have developed outside Western capitalism? What are the salient evolutionary developments now occurring in all advanced ...
The Micro-Economics of Peasant Economy, China 1920-1940
1st Edition
By Thomas B. Wiens
March 09, 2020
The objectives of this study, first published in 1982, are to elaborate a micro-economic model which adequately explains the interrelationships among economic forces determining the distribution of income in a peasant economy in the early stages of transition to industrialization. It also examines ...
Tourism in South-East Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Hitchcock, Victor T. King, Michael J.G. Parnwell
March 09, 2020
South-East Asia has developed rapidly as a tourist destination, but what are the effects of this growth upon the peoples of the region? How far is it possible to control the impact of tourism whilst also supporting the industry's role in the region's development? This book, first published in 1993,...