Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia
About the Book Series
The aim of this series is to publish original, high-quality work by both new and established scholars on all aspects of the growth economies of Asia.
Vietnamese Labour Militancy: Capital-labour antagonisms and self-organised struggles
1st Edition
By Joe Buckley
September 25, 2023
This book explores how capital-labour relations and antagonisms structure forms of militancy in Vietnam and shows that Vietnamese labour militancy is in line with global trends of worker activism.Vietnamese labour politics is undergoing significant changes, with a new Labour code that became law in...
Changing Labour Policies and Organization of Work in China: Impact on Firms and Workers
1st Edition
By Ying Zhu, Michael Webber, John Benson
August 01, 2022
The transformation of China’s economy from a centrally planned to a market-oriented system has had a profound impact on management systems and practices at the firm level, particularly changes to the organization of work. One of the consequences of this is increasing social disparity reflected ...
Cyber Risk, Intellectual Property Theft and Cyberwarfare: Asia, Europe and the USA
1st Edition
By Ruth Taplin
May 30, 2022
The desire to steal the intellectual property (IP) of others, be they creative individuals or company teams working in patent pools to create new innovations, remains the same. Political methods have become more sophisticated in terms of devaluing the output of creative humans by creating open- ...
International Entrepreneurship: A Comparative Analysis
1st Edition
By Susan Freeman, Ying Zhu, Malcolm Warner
April 29, 2022
This book explores the importance of entrepreneurs in driving economic growth as the world economy grows and becomes more integrated and more challenging. It examines the situation in both advanced and developing countries and shows how the entrepreneurial orientation of the founders of small and ...
Ritual and Economy in Metropolitan China: A Global Social Science Approach
1st Edition
By Carsten Herrmann-Pillath, Guo Man, Feng Xingyuan
April 29, 2022
This book focuses on Shenzhen, one of China’s most globalized metropolises, a leading centre of high-tech industries and, as a melting pot of migrants from all over China, a place of vibrant cultural creativity. While in the early stages of Shenzhen’s development this vibrant cultural creativity ...
How China's Silk Road Initiative is Changing the Global Economic Landscape
1st Edition
Edited
By Yuan Li, Markus Taube
April 01, 2021
China’s New Silk Road initiative constitutes one of the most ambitious projects in recent decades designed to change the pattern of the global economic division of labour as well as the geostrategic balance of power. It has the potential to create a new fabric of industrial value creation that ...
Trade Unions and Labour Movements in the Asia-Pacific Region
1st Edition
Edited
By Byoung-Hoon Lee, Ng Sek-Hong, Russell Lansbury
April 01, 2021
Recent developments in the world economy, including deindustrialisation and the digital revolution, have led to an increasingly individualistic relationship between workers and employers, which in turn has weakened labour movements and worker representation. However, this process is not universal, ...
A Microcredit Alternative in South Asia: Akhuwat's Experiment
1st Edition
By Shahrukh Rafi Khan, Natasha Ansari
August 14, 2020
Microcredit took the development world by storm as a tool for poverty alleviation in the 1980s. After being hailed as a panacea, a few decades on it started being forcefully criticised based on its practice. This book explores Akhuwat (literally brotherhood), a rapidly growing Pakistani NGO formed ...
Development Agenda and Donor Influence in South Asia: Bangladesh's Experiences in the PRSP Regime
1st Edition
By Mohammad Mizanur Rahman
August 14, 2020
Policy ownership of development agenda emerged as an important aspect in international development cooperation during the 1990s in the wake of evident failures of reform initiatives in developing countries steered by donor agencies, particularly the international financial institutions (IFIs), the ...
Innovation, Investment and Intellectual Property in South Korea: Park to Park
1st Edition
By Ruth Taplin
March 04, 2020
South Korea known as the hermit kingdom was wrenched from its isolation in the mid-seventies with the forced industialisation of its economy by Park Chung-hee during his dictatorial regime. This led South Korea to becoming the most rapidly industialised country in the world with world class ...
Business Leaders and Leadership in Asia
1st Edition
By Ying Zhu, Shuang Ren, Ngan Collins, Malcolm Warner
December 12, 2019
The quality of its business leadership is a key issue for the future development of Asia’s economies. Although Asia’s economies have grown spectacularly in recent decades, they are currently facing increasing challenges. This book explores the current state of business leaders and leadership in ...
Employers' Associations in Asia: Employer Collective Action
1st Edition
Edited
By John Beson, Ying Zhu, Howard Gospel
December 12, 2019
Economic growth in Asia over the past half century has led to significant changes in societies, business organization and the nature of work. This has been accompanied by the rise in some countries of trade unions and also of employers’ associations. This book explores the nature of employers’ ...