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 ...
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’ ...
The Chinese and Indian Corporate Economies: A Comparative History of their Search for Economic Renaissance and Globalization
1st Edition
By Raj Brown
January 17, 2019
This is a compelling analysis of the corporate economies of China and India, which are having a huge impact not just on the international economy, but also in the geopolitical and international strategy sphere as a result of an accelerated globalisation by these two countries, which is unleashing ...
The Diffusion of Western Economic Ideas in East Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Malcolm Warner
January 11, 2019
This book examines the diffusion of economic ideas in East Asia, assessing the impact of external ideas on internal theory and practice. It considers economists from Adam Smith onwards, including Marx, Keynes, Hayek and contemporary economists, and covers the subject both historically and also ...
Women, Labour and the Economy in India: From Migrant Menservants to Uprooted Girl Children Maids
1st Edition
By Deepita Chakravarty, Ishita Chakravarty
October 25, 2018
The last available census estimated around 10 per cent of total urban working women in India are concentrated in the low paid domestic services such as cleaning, cooking, and taking care of the children and the elderly. This is found to be much higher in certain parts of India, emerging as the ...
The Vietnamese Economy: Awakening the Dormant Dragon
1st Edition
Edited
By CHI DO-PHAM, Binh Tran-Nam
August 10, 2018
This book, written by economists of Vietnamese origin, is an extremely comprehensive collection on economic issues facing Vietnam. The spectrum of topics covered includes macroeconomics, microeconomics, international trade, agriculture, education, communication, institutional reforms, income ...