Asian Business Books

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31. A New Japan for the Twenty-First Century

    An Inside Overview of Current Fundamental Changes and Problems

    Edited by Rien T. Segers

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

    Many people in the West portray Japan as being fixed in its ways, and unable to change, and consequently risking national decline and international loss of prestige. However, in fact, Japan is at present in a significant transition period, comparable to the Meiji Restoration of 1868 or the period...

    Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
32. International Business in China

    Understanding the Global Economic Crisis

    Edited by Robert Taylor

    This book deals with a number of contentious issues in Chinese management as China emerges as a global economic player, with a greater role in international business during a global economic crisis. This step is in tandem with an economically driven foreign policy. Since the 1980s, Chinese...

    Published May 13th 2012 by Routledge
33. Society and HRM in China

    Edited by Malcolm Warner

    This volume looks at the relationship between society and human resource management (HRM) in China. In doing so it asks how representative the latter is of the former. The contributors argue that there needs to be a minimum degree of consonance between these two variables if HRM is to be...

    Published May 2nd 2012 by Routledge
34. 'Making Sense' of Human Resource Management in China

    Economy, Enterprises and Workers

    Edited by Malcolm Warner

    This edited work attempts to ‘make sense’ of recent developments in the field of Human Resource Management in the People’s Republic of China. It attempts to see how the paradoxes and contradictions engendered by contemporary Chinese society are being resolved in the enterprises and workplaces of...

    Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
35. Capitalist Development in Korea

    Labour, Capital and the Myth of the Developmental State

    By Dae-oup Chang

    Series: Routledge Advances in Korean Studies

    Contrary to the widely-held view that the East Asian "developmental state" is neutral in terms of the relationship between capital and labour – a benign co-operation between state officials and businessmen to organise economic development – this book argues that in fact the developmental state...

    Published April 16th 2012 by Routledge
36. Hainan - State, Society, and Business in a Chinese Province

    By Kjeld Erik Brodsgaard

    Series: China Policy Series

    This book examines the complex relationship between the state, society and business in China, focusing on the experience of the island province of Hainan. This island, for many years a provincial backwater, was given provincial rank in 1988 and became the testing ground for experiments of an...

    Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
37. Economic Reform and Employment Relations in Vietnam

    By Ngan Thuy Collins

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

    The transformation of the Vietnamese economy from socialist planning to a market economy has led to Vietnam having one of the fastest economic growth rates in the world; and to also to Vietnam engaging much more with the international economy, joining the World Trade Organisation in 2006. This book...

    Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
38. Multinationals and Economic Growth in East Asia

    Foreign Direct Investment, Corporate Strategies and National Economic Development

    Edited by Shujiro Urata, Chia Siow Yue, Fukunari Kimura

    Series: Routledge International Business in Asia

    Developing countries in East Asia recorded remarkable economic growth until the Asian financial crisis erupted in mid-1997. Although several countries experienced devastating setbacks, most of them recovered to achieve reasonable rates of economic growth over the next few years. Sound macroeconomic...

    Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
39. Industrial Innovation in Japan

    Edited by Takuji Hara, Norio Kambayashi, Noboru Matsushima

    Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology

    In this new book, Hara, Kambayashi and Matsushima gather together a collection of case studies of innovation in various industries in modern Japan, including automobile, electronics, semiconductor, component, chemical, pharmaceutical and service industries. Unlike other books in this area,...

    Published March 13th 2012 by Routledge
40. The Political Determinants of Corporate Governance in China

    By Chenxia Shi

    Series: Routledge Research in Corporate Law

    This book investigates the key factors shaping corporate governance in China and presents a sophisticated study of corporate governance in China from a comparative and historical perspective. Drawing on extensive corporate governance literature, this book articulates why path dependence theory is...

    Published March 12th 2012 by Routledge