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41. Basic Mathematics for Economics, Business and Finance

    By EK Ummer

    This book can help overcome the widely observed math-phobia and math-aversion among undergraduate students in these subjects. The book can also help them understand why they have to learn different mathematical techniques, how they can be applied, and how they will equip the students in...

    Published December 1st 2011 by Routledge
42. Innovation and Learning Experiences in Rapidly Developing East Asia

    Edited by Rajah Rasiah, Thiruchelvam Kanagasundram, Keun Lee

    Technology and technical change is sector- and industry-specific, embedded by locational institutions and organizations, and integrated in global networks. It is non-linear in its emergence and movement, and subsumed in the nature of micro, meso and macro interactions. Using evolutionary theory and...

    Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge
43. Corporate Political Strategies of Private Chinese Firms

    By Hao Ma, Shu Lin, Neng Liang

    This book is about how Chinese entrepreneurs deal with China’s most important institution-the government-in their struggle to survive and even prosper in China’s transitional economy. It takes an "inside look" at several private firms in China and provides a first-hand account, as well as the...

    Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge
44. Case Studies on Chinese Enterprises

    Edited by Donglin Xia

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

    This book is a collection of teaching cases on two Chinese companies, UFIDA and Founder. The cases describe the management practices of typical Chinese companies. UFIDA is a well-known company providing management software while Founder is a long-established high-tech company. The book aims at...

    Published November 20th 2011 by Routledge
45. Taiwanese Business or Chinese Security Asset

    A changing pattern of interaction between Taiwanese businesses and Chinese governments

    By Chun-Yi Lee

    Series: Routledge/Leiden Series in Modern East Asian Politics, History and Media

    This book investigates how China has used Taiwanese investment and treated Taiwanese investors to pursue political reunification. The book’s main supposition is that both Chinese central and local governments have strategic considerations with respect to Taiwanese businesses. Consequently, through...

    Published October 19th 2011 by Routledge
46. Business Innovation in Asia

    Knowledge and Technology Networks from Japan

    By Dennis McNamara

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

    Industrial competition with rising economies, new regional investment from the West, and trade pacts among competitors threaten Japan’s long postwar prominence. Global market dynamics and regional competition prompted the shift from offshore factories to local networks in the last decade. Similar...

    Published October 11th 2011 by Routledge
47. Singapore, the Energy Economy

    From The First Refinery To The End Of Cheap Oil, 1960-2010

    By Weng Hoong Ng

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

    Singapore might not have survived the 1960s and prospered thereafter had it not built its economy on the foundations of oil refining, trading and support for oil and gas exploration and production. Cheap oil, sound policies and strong government combined to produce the Singapore economic miracle in...

    Published October 9th 2011 by Routledge
48. Knowledge Transfer in the Automobile Industry

    Global-Local Production Networks

    By Dessy Irawati

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

    The book arose from a multi-disciplinary study which looked at the development of global-local manufacturing clusters in the context of a developing, Asian economy. The study demonstrates the connection amongst theoretical perspectives such as international business,...

    Published September 28th 2011 by Routledge
49. Privatization in Malaysia

    Regulation, Rent-Seeking and Policy Failure

    By Jeff Tan

    Series: Routledge Malaysian Studies Series

    In recent years, privatisation has fallen out of favour in many countries because the underlying political factors have not been well understood. This book examines Malaysia’s privatisation programme, focusing on how political constraints resulted in the failure of four major privatisations: the...

    Published September 12th 2011 by Routledge
50. Human Resource Management in China

    New Trends and Practices

    By Fang Lee Cooke

    The approach to managing human resources has changed significantly in China over the last twenty-five years as its transformation from a state planned economy to a market-oriented economy continues. By adopting a broad notion of HRM, while remaining sympathetic to the strong emphasis on...

    Published September 7th 2011 by Routledge